The community in this book is very controlling and totalitarian. When people break the rules (or at least when they do it often enough) they are "released." This is also done to people when they get too old or when the government thinks there is something wrong with them. Jonas finds out that people who get "released" are given a lethal injection and thrown down a garbage chute.
As far as who runs the government,we don't know very much about this. We do know that there is a Council of Elders that runs things, but we don't know much about them.
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