Guilds are a core part of the Guildocracy, they elect a Guild Leaders every 2 years which will represent them in the Assembly of leaders. a guild is required to have at least 5000 members to join the assembly, guilds cover a specific profession or trade, there may only be 1 guild per profession and trade, exceptions.
A person also may only be a member of one guilds, joining a guild has requirements set by that specific guild. Famously the only guild without requirements is the folk’s guild, it serves as a place for anyone that isn’t part of another guild, making sure everyone has a say.
In rare cases a guild may be have significant importance to the archipel but have less than 5000 members, when that happens the guild may ask the governor to invoke the essential guilds vote, if the Governor agrees all guild leaders will vote, if 80% of the votes are a yes a guild may still enter the assembly even tough they have a member deficit, their voting power will be a base of 1.