Basically, everything's run on capitalism. There's no actual government so to say, just the various businesses, some of which are bigger than the others. If you want things like utilities, you pay into them. This even goes so far as station security. If you want them to patrol near where you have your store, you pay up to the security fund. This is why the only real crimes are shoplifting and property damage, because those are the things people pay the station security to prevent.

The station's attitude toward synths is different from the official attitude. Officially, synth money is just as good as any other money but from a practical standpoint people will probably follow the opinions of their own species.

(... I forget, have you read the Vorkosigan books? Basically, the station is a little like Komarr, a bit more like Jackson's Whole--only not so much a wretched hive of scum and villany (yet)--and the high value of wood I took straight from Beta Colony.)

P.S. The databases would probably mention how much the various businesses charge for parking/airspace tolls in the vicinity of their buildings.