I dont think that some of the 'missing' areas that you have mentioned are in fact missing...
It dosn't matter if Mudos dosent seem to have any form of goverment, Rather it could easly be run by the laws of natural justice in a huge 'free for all' with only the strongest suvivering. The closest things to goverments that Mudos probly has is the compeating companys/cartels/speaices of Mudos/Oddworld. And while they fight eachother just like war lords they also pay, house and feed their slaves and emploies... You must remember that goverments as we know them are a new idea and have been offten in the past unnessesary. Like comunist systems, or Monickies (sp?). I think it is closest to the Middle Ages in Europe with compeating Lords and Kings.
Exept on Oddworld the Queens ultimently will get the say on what to do because they are the only ones who can pass on the genes to new generations. And therefore pass on comon genes amongst her children so its almost like the children are having their own genes past on. In fact the siblings are more incommon this way then they would be if they where a sexxal speacies and had their own children (at least in bees). This is imortant because it is the desire of all life to pass on as many of their own traits as possible (thats the logic to supper speaices).
Also each company/cartel/speaices would probly provide its own internal services for its emploies like its sercrity force of sligs and some medical suplies for eachother to use in the lower ranks and Intern Aberlence officers with Vykker doctors for the higher ranks.
Farmming on Oddworld is probily considered the precuerment of food, so the probly just rape the natural enviroment of its resorces weather it be plant or animal even though in most casses farmming is easyer. But also since on Oddworld most of their meat bassed food stuffs, which seem to make up most if not all of their diets, seam to have come from carniverus supper speaices it may be easyer to just catch them like what Rapture Farms did with Scrabs and Paramites. So Sligs could do that like in AO.
[ January 15, 2002: Message edited by: oddguy 999 ]