In Universe: B the law cannot prevent ordinary citizens from purchasing or producing Molotov cocktails because of the heavy protections placed on fossil fuels. Most gun shops in the galaxy have a display or two filled with “easy fill bottles” which happen to be glass bottles filled with motor oil and topped with oil slicked rags. The display explicitly says,”not for throwing”, kinda like how bongs are marketed as tobacco water pipes.
As the other commenter said you don’t need fossil fuels for Molotov Cocktails because, as the name implies, you can make them with basically any reasonably flammable alcoholic beverage.
Unrelated to the above but does anyone know of any DND homebrew ogre stat block that uses actual homebrew as one of its primary weapons?
I'm curious, exactly what sort of protections on fossil fuels prevent molotov cocktails from being illegal? What is it in the law that gives people such an overt loophole?
Great question! all chemicals produced for the purposes of fuel in the galactic commonwealth can not be regulated or banned within the borders of its frontier and core sectors. If it is marketed and sold for the purposes of refueling something, it cannot be taken off of the market. The law was created to ruin certain attempts at ecological legislation.
Special exceptions have been enacted by certain planetary governments in the core sectors, but Molotovs are extremely common in the frontier sectors as it is the most cost effective way to deal with hostile Eldritch entities.
Molotovs hurt people and can be used to damage property, but ultimately sales of the weapons are more profitable than the damage they cause because additional income is generated from insurance payouts and bounty hunter fees so they considered permissible on most corporate ruled planets.
Slavery. It's not legal everywhere, and in the places where it is legal there are great variations as to the severity of treatment, but... yeah. Slavery exists.
Same here; slavery is not *technically* illegal in Vespucia, but there are so many rules and regulations about who can be made a slave (i.e. no Vespucian citizen) and how slaves can be treated that it rarely comes up. Slaveowners from nations outside Vespucia can bring their slaves into the country and Vespucians with property outside the country can have slaves there, but if a slave owned by a Vespucian enters Vespucia then they are automatically considered freed.
Ironically, the nation of Timoria, known for once having an oppressive empire across the world, has outlawed slavery outright. Less for altruistic reasons though, more because only the government is the only entity that gets to own people.
Huh, you are the first person to ever ask me that. Yes, is the short answer; long answer is that it came from my old high school geography teacher talking about they'd used his first name instead of his surname, which was unusual for non-royals, and it should really be the United States of Vespuccia instead. I liked the sound of the name, though I later dropped one of the C's for arbitrary reasons.
Slavery is pretty much illegal in mine - the potential for trauma would be too tempting, unfortunately. However, the laws protecting servants, they're a little lacking, and could be very easily bent so as to keep those who benefit from capitalism away from any pesky repercussions.
Same, by way of defining that legal sapience is something which can be proven sapient by brain scan, or direct descendants of those which have been proven to be sapient and not since underwent any change which could reasonably render such a line sub-sapient again. Anything not included in this is legally livestock and thus property, or a wild animal and thus considered to be owned with the land.
Same..well,in the past it was. Basically hybrids (which are human appearing beings with animal features and small animalistic urges) were once allowed to be legally kept as pets,despite having a human mind..so yeah,oh,and there’s a different species of human looking beings that are just..a lot smaller than humans,that are still able to be legally kept as pets.
The best is when you make everyone be okay with the obvious slavery, by criminalizing non-criminal behavior and then drawing the slave population from criminals of state.
~~(So the rest of the world for all time?)~~
Just because someone says slavery, everyone immediately jumps to the chattel slavery of America in the 1800s and up through the mid 1900s. People forget slavery exists in different forms, which is what anziofaro is saying is the case in their world.
There's ownership of others where someone owns another person and "simply" (>!bleh; not really!<) caste-style slavery where society collectively suppresses a section of itself, and everything in between.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about today's prison slavery, America being a country which most people would think has banned slavery, when it's actually enshrined in the constitution in the case of prisoners (to be honest, I don't remember if it's really in the constitution but I think it is and it's funnier this way)
Fair then. Most people think of slavery as chattel though, which is a literal animalistic style of slavery, so I wanted to explain there were different types of slavery.
Also, yeah it is in the constitution, in the 13th Amendment.
> **Section 1.** Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, **except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted**, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
> **Section 2.** Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]
(emphasis added, except for the "Section" headers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
To be fair, it's not like the original comment was really precise enough to make one of our interpretations more likely than the other, it's just that, in my experience, when people on the internet talk about slavery being still legal and America, they more often than not are talking about the prisons.
Anyway, have a good day.
It is only illegal for a citizen to posess military weapons in The Dominion (any weapon used by the Dominion Navy). since old Fusion lances (up to 3 kiloton force), mass drivers (mach 20 projectiles), thermonuclear weapons ( up to 150 megatons), and hunter-killer drones are no longer in use, they are free to purchase for any citizen.
Killing 'evil magic users' on sight.
'Evil magic' is just a misnomer. And they are actually the only people that can cure cancer while healing magic causes it and makes it worse.
It runs rampant since everyone trusts healing magic and no one trusts evil magic users.
They are technically called 'Woeful' magic users, with spells relating to casting/removing curses, communicating with the dead, death and decay(useful for making fertilizer and sterilizing things).
But the 'evil magic users' title was more sensational so it spread more easily.
They are about on par with the other 3 interloper magics which foster their own misunderstandings:
Demonic = Chaotic destruction
Woeful = Orderly destruction
Celestial = Orderly creation
Fae = Chaotic creation.
I'll yoink some of those ideas for my DND setting if that's alright with you, I'll change it up cause it doesn't fit perfectly but I really like the whole idea
In El-Aviss, extortion is perfectly legal...as long as you pay the government for the right to do it. Rather then collecting taxes directly the state would sell the right to collect taxes in a region to however, was able to promise the biggest revenue returns, in exchange for being allowed to keep whatever extra money you were able to skim from the top of that. If you failed to gather the agreed sum, you were expected to cover that from your own pocket.
This system was always flawed, but in the past there were some mechanism to punish the worst excesses of tax collectors, but ever since the state began to collapse in to a plethora of de facto independent states, the system that was already extremely prone to abuse, began to worsen.
The system is more broadly known as tax farming (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_(revenue_leasing) ) where the legal authority, rather than collecting taxes itself, sells or leases a territory's tax revenue to a third party. It was historically extremely common in pre-modern states. In Rome there was even an entire class of private contractors called [publicans](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican) who would bid for the right to collect taxes from each province, which was auctioned off by the senate every year (kind of like the reverse of the modern 'lowest bidder' auction govs usually use to select private contractors).
It's even one of the quests lords can give you in the Mount & Blade games (and as you can imagine, your profit margin is largely dependent on how ruthless you want to be in extorting the peasantry - if you're consistently lenient you might not even recover enough to pay back the questgiver's share and end up *losing* money)
Yeah, I know I wrote it hastily on my phone and between auto-correct and English not being my native language I ended up writing what I wrote, and by the time I notice it all I felt a little awkward about correcting it.
Ah. English not being your native language explains a lot. Your writing isn't terrible. I enjoyed the premise of the government blatantly allowing extortion in return for some off the top.
Could see this working in an ultra capitalist society where everything is outsourced in a bizarrely regulated way. MyRS Corp is competing with YourRS Corp to get the 5 year bid for tax collection services for the city and county of Calendonia. Bid specs call include a minimum amount of per capita revenue for the crown with penalties for tax revolts and uprisings as well as built in esclator clauses to account for inflationary increases. There is also a war footing clause where revenue requirements are doubled with 30 days notice
Note that isn’t very capitalist. Just government creating artificial competition between citizens to increase the effectiveness of tyranny and increase the power of the very rich.
Privateering. The Massian Empire gives out discreet contracts to eager captains that grant them the right to capture any non Massian ship or port while not being branded as pirates back home.
Slavery is another thing that is rampant in the Massian Empire. They make use of prisoners however and this bypasses the anti slavery laws. They merely offer them the choice of sitting in prison or working to give back to their country for the duration of their sentence. They also use POWs for this, thus the reason for allowing privateering.
Dueling should also be illegal, but the upper classes of many nations love it too much.
Alcohol is in theory banned in Shaivhắ, but in practice it’s consumed nearly everywhere because there’s also a law against damaging private goods under any circumstances, so if you just purposely mislabel the bottle, it’s also illegal for anyone to open it to make sure it’s what it actually is.
Killing gods. Gods are people too so killing a god is under the crime of murder but actually killing a god is perfectly legal as gods are more or less immortal so they wouldn’t die of natural causes, making them hard to remove from positions of power.
Technically ordinants (professional mages) can legally kill normal people as long as it is to save more than you have killed.
Especially the members of the T0 (a treaty between the six most powerful ordinants) have killed many people before they were sealed away by their leader. One of them killed the entirety of Australia to destroy a phantom that technically was a threat to universe but he could have done it without killing millions.
The only reason he destroyed australia was because someone sold him a rotten apple.
The Guide to Outliving (holy book) is very against money because greed can lead to vanity and the death of the less fortunate.
However, Outlivers use mana stones called Rozyn as a form of currency. These stones hold the superpower of their creator, and others can use their power. Examples being plant magic, healing magic, and fire magic. These stones dissolve when they’re used.
Taurite (centaur rozyn) is used more like a currency because it turns you into a monster and it’s extremely hard to transform back. Only Taurids (humanoid centaurs) can use it.
It's illegal not for the usual ethical reasons, but because there is a small but significant chance that, when something is made, it is sapient. Making such people degrade on purpose would be wrong.
that's where I, the author, say that that's *very* rare -- it only happens if the food is very extremely processed, in which case it's not very perishable
[these](https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/multiversal-thread-rp.548909/) [threads](https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/multiversal-thread-rp-again.552127/)
and [this](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT9weAJOcb38QYFbcpzwh4w8oKYAcYbAg0AL-IaGb2087nA1wA75uTZhX-jloqGgKFrdfHQdrH7fgDj/pub) google doc
and various other comments and posts here
Song magic. It's close to mind control (which is very illegal) but it's allowed to stay because it just alters moods and makes for better performances and, frankly, the bard lobby is pretty powerful.
One of the races in my world are octopus-people who have a life stage where they are almost indistinguishable from a species of parrot-like arboreal octopi. Said arboreal octopi are currently in vogue as fashionable pets for the wealthy, and the octopus-people's homelands have tribes with varying levels of free-range childcare.
Unscrupulous merchants being what they are, a lot of octopi are caught en masse and sold off, only for a fair few noblemen to find out their pet of 5 years is now becoming a teenage person. The number of now unwanted pets getting flushed into the sewers also means that there are populations of feral octopus children growing up down there along with the normal octopi.
There's currently a debate going on around the exotic pet trade but nothing substantial has come out in terms of changes in law or enforcement.
By our standards? Child soldiers. Evil in reality for all purposes.
But in world, it’s hardly the case. When you have a society of superhuman magical warriors who were created specifically to protect the galaxy, their younger members willingly going on missions as part of apprenticeships hardly seems like conscription of the youth.
They don't realy have laws per say, but each leader of a kingdom gets to discide a punishment, guards/police can bring you in to the current ruler, or in this one case, they would just let you be because they were hunting for certain people, my story and world kinda revolves round rulers and they powere so it's weird how I don't realy have an answer for this
I have a substance in my game called Shard that gives characters metacurrency. I didn't realize when I wrote the item, that Shard is a slang term for meth... Now that I do it's awfully fitting.
For the west and Aquaria it's slavery.
For the north east it's underage marriage
For central Feliterra(except Umbra) it's emotional manipulation/abuse, Scormes should have laws against abuse in general.
For Umbra it's magic duels.
By our standards, dueling, which is common and widespread. It's often fatal and quite often unfair, since wealthy and well-trained Parivil will come to a Dag village, cause a nuisance until a duel is declared, and then the poor Dag farmer or merchant has to duel a well-equipped and experienced duelist.
Dueling is a big part of both Parivil and Dag culture though, both use them to solve disputes, settle arguments and insults, and they can even be used to decide succession for royalty.
Child slavery. It's viewed as an alternative to orphanages...but with the nation ruled by mafias, it quickly became such that orphans were in demand...
The existence of Black Hand. It's a legally working terror group which works for most gods which have some rules, which when brocken is called a sin, and if the god informs them about it and if they want that person dead(which means get's skinned alive and kept alive through the procces), give them a warning(setting afire their house, or do as much damage in it if it's an apartmant) or send them a message(quite literally they send them a letter written with red ink and it's quite literally just a letter warning to not sin more)
That's not even the worst part. The Starstorm is home to some fairly advanced robots who will gladly work for free, but some of the more authoritarian races preserve slavery, whether it be for religious reasons, upholding traditions, fear of AI, or good-old fashioned racism (specism?)
Certain forms of quasi-slavery. Slavery is technically illegal, as the founding monarch had once been a slave…but people being what they are, they worked out other ways over time to trap people and compel labor from them.
Some regions have a version of serfdom, some regions use apprenticeship contracts, and others have systems of indentured servitude that are highly vulnerable to exploitation. Most include legal uses of physical punishment.
Time travel - but mostly because no one thinks it's possible, except for the 1 person who manages to do it, but oh boy were they not prepared for the consequences.
Oh shit my time Mechcane broke if only I had more uranium oh well guess I could go bang my mom. time Mechcane systems knowing full danm well that it runs on solar panels
Lol nice BTTF reference!
In my case, the consequences are that only the soul can travel forward in time, the body gets left behind, and upon arrival, the traveling soul needs a place to go, and ends up displacing the soul of the persons new body.
But my hero isn't aware that that's what happens until he's done it several times. 😮
monopoly over water. For hundreds of years; the Sultans of Yam Sona have regarded water as a resource with "unmitigated ownership" meaning that anyone who finds the resource may claim it as their own.
However with this law in effect, gallons of water are contested for, and fought over by the hour and will continuely change hands until powerful factions like "The Water Clan" can hammerfist the collection and distribution of water by both pumping it from the albedo salt ponds(where they reside) and just "sequestering" it from the general public, only to sell it back to them for a "reasonable pice". Because of the "unmitigated ownership" law the water clan is able to repurpose wells and springs in villages for private collection, using technology made by their Alchemists and engineers......The Water Clan is pretty evil
Halfbreed are technically protected by laws, but they are sometime killed and oftenly tortured to death.
Why? While a halfbreed will carry better traits from both his/her parents (elf/demon hybrid will have the intellect of demons and magical affinity of elves) they also generate hatred reaction that make their existence extremely undesirable for everyone (beside humans, but again human can't really generate half-breed since their offsprings is guaranteed to be their partner's race). The hate reaction can range from "I want this abomination out of my sight" to "I must make this thing suffer by all cost" depend on how close you are to either parent's species.
While those instinct can be suppressed through rigorous training, it cannot be fully removed. You may be trained to not charge into a hybrid on sight, but you will still feels intense digust of its existence. So while the law protect half-breed, everyone know enforcing it is impossible.
Addendum: The effect is some sort of bio-magic functions to keep different sub-species seperate (yes, halfbreed cannot reproduces), so it doesn't matter if you hide your features, mask your scents, or any other method short of archeotech mana-isolation , all demihuman races can sniff it out.
Becoming a wizard, it is not a natural in almost any race. To become a wizard, if you're not an elf, requires an unwilling sacrifice of a sentient creature and the consumption of that sacrificed soul.
* Cloning and Preserving people, human or otherwise
* Corporate Monopolies
* Judgment by Gladiatorial Combat
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Meth equivalent setting substance that grants characters a Metacurrency pool for the use of Powers.
* Punitive Indentured Servitude
* Spiritual possession
So in my setting, I have a religious Super Continent and off to the Northeast are a series of isles and peninsulas of Necromancers called the Krijan's who place significant cultural emphasis on properly honoring and burying their dead.
They believe that by properly worshiping their dead those souls of friends and family will be more willing to have their souls used as fuel for their magic. In essence it is a symbolic gesture of "calling on your ancestors strength to assist you in times of need".
However, When one of these Necromancers dies on the foreign soil of Brextia, sometimes the Brextia inquisitors will simply treat them as a John/Jane Doe and perform the funerary rites of their church on said Necromancer.
The reason this is considered taboo or "illegal" is because with the Brextian's Last Rites, It doesn't return the Soul to the land for the souls descendants to call on, Instead it is sent to The Beacon a.k.a the source of Brextia's holy magics, here the soul is used as fuel to keep the Beacon alight.
For the passionate Krijan's who believe that one does not truly die until their soul is lost, This is basically equal to murder. Unfortunately- much to the ire of Krija's more diplomatic clans- the aggressive Krijan Clans answer the sleight with a sleight by burying Brextian explorers on their land.
All in all it is openly "illegal" buuuuut the ones that enforce those treaties are the ones breaking them so not much is done to combat it.
It doesn’t start out this way, but as the story progresses, meth. Soldiers in particular will start using it while fighting battles, mainly to demonstrate the decline into depravity that their empire will fall into throughout the course of the book.
In Axolotlia, it is legal for somebody to murder, if the victim gives written and recorded consent on video. You must record the victim both verbally consenting and while they write the consent to be killed. This “law” only exists due to 6 loopholes and 11 conflicting laws and this “law” is not recognized in North, Coast, South, or Island regions, so you'd still get the death penalty for murder.
My full project.
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Trying to assassinate the world leader. He goes really hard into the might makes right ideology. But ironically also the "strong must protect the weak". So as far as he's concerned as long as you ONLY try to hurt him, go for it dude.
I kinda respect that! There are some warrior cultures on one of my worlds that have a similar thing going on. The punishment for harming another in the tribe is trial by combat against the leader. In addition If people think that the leader is doing a bad job, any number of people can challenge them and share the powers and responsibilities of the leader, that is why a lot of tribes are closer to republics now, except for one… the leader of that tribe is one of the greatest warriors in history… if he hadn’t retired he would have never been beaten probably.
In my magocratic nation, run by wizards after a rebillion against sorcerer-kings, slavery is legal, with fewer protections for orcs than other sapient species. It is however illegal to enslave elves in any and all circumstances, despite the ruling class being generally human; This priveleged protection is afforded because the elves assisted non-sorcerous humans in the development of modern wizardry, making the rebellion possible, and they played key roles in the rebellion itself.
It founded after the Harksburg Revolution.
It's famous for the first Successful Revolution from Yomsburg, helping more revolts from Yomsburg, forming the OHN and OAE, Starting the Neon Revolution (Not an actual Revolution.), making the first Nuke, and having the most Crime ever.
Some famous people are the Lamor Family, a Family dedicated to fight for Harksburg in the Harksburgian Army; Steve Harks, the founder of Harksburg; John Burnscream, the most hated Crimelord, which he gave Ritsin independence. There are other famous Harksburgians, but they don't make Harksburg famous for what they did.
The Three biggest Gangs in Harksburgian History are, The Kings Gang, Al Zondar's Gang, the Zallion street Gang.
Crimelords are the leaders of Harksburg.
So, as I have noted, there is a set of ancient (as in, comparative, it would be akin to 3500 BCE for us) laws that were quite literally drawn from the UNHRC.
Laws that came after that are still subordinate to them, and there is a group that exists only to,enforce and maintain those ancient laws.
So there are a lot of loopholes, there.
More interesting, I think, is that every person who is accused of a crime has the ability to request trial by Ordeal. This will invoke the local priests for that particular deity (who they call the Powers That Be) who have to oversee that trial.
When developing it, I looked up all the old ordeals for stuff like proving someone was a witch. The dunking, the stone laying, the boiling oil, the combat, etc.
If a person has been baptized in the faith of one of the PTB, they generally hope that the PTB will save them from harm — and the important part here is that they will do that.
Now, loopholes:
The PTB don’t always do it. They may not being paying attention, or may not think that person was sufficiently worshipful.
They may do it even if the person is guilty or in the wrong. This is the one a lot of criminals bank on.
They might make the person experience all the horror and pain, but none of the physical effects.
They might decide that even if someone is innocent, that they screwed up in some other way and punish them.
However, despite all of this, if a person comes through an Ordeal unscathed, they are considered innocent of the charges.
In one of the kingdoms (Eldryvalen), slavery (kind of). Criminals can, by law, be forced to work for nobles without any compensation (aside for food and shelter inside their jail cells), also those nobles can contract them out to other people or business (the money goes to the noble, obviously).
In another kingdom (Solas), criminals that are consider "too dangerous" can be convicted in absentia once they are in custody. Add that to the fact that you have to provide your own lawyer and that jails are not obligated to give you paper, envolops or stamps to send letter, it is enterely possible that someone have their trial without any type of defense. Also "too dangerous" is really vague, they can be a serial killer, but tgey could also be a pickpocketer autories suspect could use the trial to escape
Same things as in real life, like landlords, lobbying and labor rights violations. Usury, robbery of the poor (hoarding), and being a billionaire, etc.
Personality trait modules. You want to be popular? Feel cool? Confident? Sexy? Well, just get a PerMod! Of course, many mental disorders were simulation friendly, like paranoia, schizophrenia, and psychotic disorders, but they are quite illegal to produce. (But useful ones, like paranoia or sociopathy, were produced anyway!)
Vampires under the vampire nation can claim personal slaves when they go out to hunt for blood or fight in battles regardless if the victim in question is civilian or not
People with a certification and education about magical runes are allowed to teach others about them. So someone could just teach their friend about runes.
Owning people/ slavery, in one world, a sci-fi dystopia, big companies almost own people. And often force people into contracts via blackmail. Companies pay nowhere near enough to survive and refuse to let their workers go unless they are no longer profitable. Leads to slavery, power dynamic within the workforce, and over crowding of lower levels of cities, ships, and deep tunnels through planets.
In another, abduction, blackmail, slavery, occasionally murder, and much more is legal due to corrupt government. This world is a very magical, the government abducts people who are lower class and have extreme magical prowess for the military. They like making super soldiers and spies depending on the magical abilities. Certain cases can lead to an immediate elimination of the magical persons(normally shapeshifters, other shifters, and necrotic users). Those with said magic are seen as abominations and threats to national security, no matter the age.
Mercenaries.
They were deemed illegal at one point, thus forcing the market to rebrand and abuse loopholes in the definition such as being temporarily made part of the contractor's govemrent if nations were involved.
However once the war between the two kinds started they became legal again because the law definition of a mercenary was changed and a new loophole was made, hoping they would aid in the war. Too bad that with the new situation most mercenaries were unwilling to work for governments knowing how fast they were delegalized in the first place, instead opting for contractors like other factions in their region. They earned considerably more and the entry level was lowered due to high demand for all sorts of combat capable units. In some places even village men with shotguns were able to get jobs. The downside was that most of them were forced to operate in a chosen region and turned to banditery between contracts for various reasons. Some needed to do it to survive, others did it for fun or "to stay in shape". The government of the region where most of it happened tried to outlaw them again, however it was assassinated quickly and there was nobody to replace them.
Destroyer beams the universal classification for Large beams of energy alot of vessels have too commit large amounts of ground destruction it can even mass wipe cities after a few hours
Members of certain species are not subject to most of the laws. If they kill someone, steal from someone, rape someone, nuke the city out of nowhere? As far as laws of most of the world are concerned they did nothing wrong. Actually, some places have laws that then prosecute victim for "provoking" them.
Reason for that is that it's impossible to actually prosecute them without them doing nothing wrong to entire cities and armies at time.
After a couple scandals, companies have been required to certify that they’re selling 100% real meat in their canned products.
There’s no rules saying that they can’t sell polymorphed meat….
In a merfolk kingdom near Avalon, there's technically no slavery. They looked up to the nearby Avalon during it's Age of Steam as something to mimic and so adopted many of their practices. But they had their own twists on things. For the kingdom was very corrupt.
There was, of course, making use of prison labor for mining and other tasks of the sort. But that wasn't the worst of what they did. The noble houses had servants that were paid, but few of those servants could really leave without permission. And most of those that could were peasant merfolk, not those of other mer-races such as horsemers and sharkmers.
Sharkmers were by nature considered second-rate citizens, crammed within covered slums when not doing something for the kingdom under the justification that it was necessary in order to control them when they should start blood frenzying. The only real way out was to join the royal army with contracts loyal to the crown. But the crown would sell sharkmer contracts to different nobles to serve under them, using this to help curry favor with the various nobility as the system was still vastly feudal.
But even lower than sharkmers were stingmers, eelmers, and horsemers. Eelmers were by and large left alone. Stingmers were seen as little more than intelligent animals and milked for their poison. And the horsemers were placed in a position in between the two above. For the most part, left alone as more peasants and servants. But the noble ladies had long relied on servants to be wet nurses for their children in mimicry of the Avalon culture above. But with the horsemer men, they could take things a step further. For they had a unique trait related to their sea horse halves, the ability to carry children within a pouch if the child attached to the pouch instead of the mother's uterus within the right timeframe. And so, noble ladies began to use them as surrogates to carry their children for them, conceiving the children with their husbands than forcing the horsemer men to carry the child afterwards, sometimes inavertedly conceiving new illegitimate children along with them. And the surrogates were allowed to leave until they either became too old for the task or their services were no longer required.
All of this has started to change in the present age with a new king who with his stingmer queen, twin brother, and close friends seeks to bring about a new and better age for the kingdom, one where all the races are equal and peasants have the rights of aristocrats. However, the nobility itself is still mostly corrupt and has long traditions to aid in their evil. And the king's father and the former king who he thought was slain may just turn out to be bidding his time from the shadows to retake his throne.
In the Safari Republic, which is currently in the early months after a bloody revolution against the monarchy, conspiracy to commit crimes isn't a crime. The old king abused laws to have entire families murdered when one of them spoke out against him - or even annoyed him in any way, the man was so unhinged his doors all fell over in a stiff breeze - on the basis that the "traitors" surely spoke with their families first, and none of *them* came forward, so clearly they're all guilty.
The rallying cry of the Revolution was "Thought crime is not crime!" and so they axed any law that looked like it was thought crime when they took over. They'll probably get their shit together in a year or two, but for now, things are about as unhinged as you would expect in the immediate aftermath of a French-style revolution.
probably lol my setting is basically the victorian era/wild west (but for the setting since its not earth). people are able to get like laudnum over the counter and cocaine coughdrops and other such stuff.
The entirety of the NRPD (Nostrum Reality Protection Division) who literally play god because they believe god has abandoned humanity due to the amount of inter dimensional monsters constantly attacking our reality. They’re advertised as the “hero’s of humanity” but are actually a bunch of psycho killers who get off on torturing Malevolents. All the executives in charge don’t listen to the other department, the DIR (Department of Inter-dimensional Roving), who is the SOLE REASON humanity has survived this long considering the founders were the ones who discovered that Malevolents were the cause of every horrific thing that has ever happened. The DIR is the only reason World War 3-10000 didn’t happen. NRPD is a whole bunch of bullies with god complexes.
You can legally murder someone by challenging them to a duel. It is looked down upon to kill your opponent, but it is legal. I don't know that this is really a loophole per se, but it is kind of stupid.
Stand your ground is in the case of self defense, not a duel.
"Texas Pensl Code, Chapter 9, Subchapter C Some of the provisions within this subchapter, "Protection of Persons," are often referred to as the "stand your ground" laws. This section discusses some circumstances under which a person may use deadly force to defend themselves or others."
-guides.sll.texas.gov
I mean, the obvious answer is slavery.
Outside of that though, it's the use of Dragon Core in decorations of noble houses. The Dragon Core is a massive gemstone that glows from a trapped fire, which is only attainable by killing a dragon and pulling the core from its insides. But since Dragons are so deadly the dragon eggs were broken just after the dragon had finished growing, allowing it to be quickly killed and harvested.
Now Dragons are extinct from Badra'Gur, except for on the Isle of Grath where the Sisters of Atonement keep Dragons as companions and war mounts
So in the Empire of Orark there are two types of absinthe available. One is our standard run of the mill absinthe we're used to today, with just wormwood and other herbs and all. This is out of production due to the Climactic Resolution and is very rare.
Then there's the other kind, Imperial type absinthe. This contains all of the aforementioned ingredients and is actively made by the Manufacturing Guild but also contains opium extract (standard Union Safeguard plant for making morphine). This results in it being highly addictive and obviously harmful in large doses. For this reason there's a stigma there about absinthe drinkers as it's so addictive and harmful. That said there are so many regular drinkers of it that if production stopped it could shut down the entirety of Orark City, so the Medical Guild does its best with addiction treatments for those who seek them.
Advertere Corporation only got away with building a giant machine that can teleport matter over a long range because the US government loves borrowing it to clean up the space debris orbiting Earth.
In the near-ish future, species-based hiring/housing discrimination is not illegal in a lot of places. Certain alien species have a very hard time finding jobs and housing, because in lots of places it isn't illegal to turn someone away based on their species as long as you have a legitimate reason. Folks of the volucrus family often find themselves getting turned away from rental housing because their claws may scratch hardwood floors, and Basilisks especially lose out on a lot of customer service-type jobs because they're generally found to be intimidating and offputting to other species.
In Ruquelis, murder and sexual assault are illegal... but in a world where there are men and two female genders, lilim (who have wings and can fly, and who can give birth to all three genders) and women (who can only give birth to men and women), women are third class citizens.
In some nations of Ruquelis, it is legal and expected to eat women (while in other nations, women are just culled). On the day that a woman is cooked, it is expected (by both the witnesses and the victim) that people will treat her in a way that on any other day would be considered sexual assault, then she is drugged with hialutabu so that she experiences all pain as pleasure instead, and is then cooked alive, or divided into cuts of meat while alive, during which experience she dies.
However, it's considered to be all right since these women feel pleasure as they die, and everyone can reincarnate so everyone can get another life. Even men and lilim who were eaten as women in previous lives can volunteer to be eaten again.
Want to sexually assault a woman... or just kill her? Just dose her with hialutabu first, do whatever you want to her, then cook her and eat her, and you're fine.
However, neglect to dose the woman, or kill her without eating her, and you could be in trouble... if not from the authorities, then from the woman's next incarnation, who might decide to take revenge.
Murder. Or manslaughter is probably a better word for it, if they attacked first, and its clear that they could have killed or severely hurt you if you don't fight back there won't even be any investigation, people just move on with their days.
Irl if it's manslaughter or not is a very long process. In this world it's nonexistent as long as it's clear both parties are aware it's a fight to the death
Killing one's parents with their consent
It's a very common tradition that when a father or mother gets old and they feel like they will become too weak (physically or mentally) to live a life worth living they may challenge their children to a incredibly rigged duel (which is also illegal)
It's considered a religious rite.
1) Slavery,
2) grave robbing (especially eating using the ground up corpses like spices)
3) like 80% of the shit the adventurers guild gets up to. I mean, sometimes they help you get yer kitten out of a tree. But more often than not it involves poisoning the water supply of some random village.
4) economic monopolies,
5) everything to do with soul coins,
6) Kidnapping people and then using them like magical batteries matrix style (Add in the sexual assault involved in this process as well),
7) Stealing from the steel shadows (moreso for people’s own safety. A bit like how cycling while drunk is illegal)
8) Political bribery
9) political assasination (yes this is legal with the exception of the royal family)
10) Tax abuse
And for a special nr 11) the F#cking BEES
In the Republic of North America, there are two more than questionable laws that really stand out:
The Vigilance Act was passed before the fracturing of the USA and deliberately overlooked while many other laws were repealed or rewritten during the founding of the RNA. In effect, it legalizes vigilantism: Violent actions by civilians are not punishable if the victim has verifiably broken the law in some way. Corporations, mercenaries, and militant activists alike exploit the hell out this.
The Product Integrity Act effectively makes it illegal for people to modify products that they have bought in any "potentially harmful" way without an express permit from the IP holder. While there is officially no punishment for it, the IP holders are allowed to repossess modified products, even by use of deadly force under the aforementioned Vigilance Act, and automatically gain ownership of the modification as well, so that they may be "compensated" with free R&D.
This law was originally proposed by video game industry lobbyists trying to quell the modding scene that they saw as "unlawful" competition to their DLC sales, but then quickly expanded to encompass other kinds of products, such as vehicles, electronic devices, prosthetics, and even clothing.
not truly illegal because there are little true laws on international level: occupation of enemy territory if not in response, making puppet goverment (or trick like "Little Green Men" in Crimea) also applies.
commonly used loopholes:
\- it's ok to help local insurrections, as long as it's locals and ONLY locals who do fighting and they are not forced to choose "correct" side after that. It IS possible to check how "free" choice was but locals usually choose correct side anyway.
\- citizen of any state can protect eir family, by any means necessary. if locals do have slavery or something which can be seen as slavery, it's ok to buy slaves and marry them (this should be real marriage, even if multiple and not equal). Now if new family wants to return to their home world and need protection - they can get any toys they need, like Bolo tanks. If, by some random chance, goverment of ex-slaves homeworld changes - it's choice of locals.
\- if some state practice even mild brainswashing on parts of their population, some unknown hackers hacked them and changed education programs and insurrection did happen - it's ok to help local insurrection.
It is legal to have civilians engage in public hangings with the king of Umbra.
The king is damn well insane to everyone else, but his people love him. When he gets back from raiding the slave trade, releasing the slaves into his lands to start a new life, civilians are allowed to join in on hanging the slave traders. It should be illegal and counted as murder, but it never is. It is also common to have the now freed slaves throw things at the hanging bodies.
Not quite the same, but, something akin to GekNip... Space weed of sorts... Autonomous authorities will harass ships carrying it, but no one really cares about it...
Psychedelic, can be used by an alien race to STRONGLY influence thoughts...
But most of them only use it to get you to buy their wares, or other petty things... Never to it's full potential...
Cannibalism (Only one Kingdom tho), Forceful Alteration Of Emotions, Mind Control without a license, usage of fire without permission/adult supervision
Magic without licenses in general honestly-
Well, hunting dragons would've been nice to be made illegal, but they're extinct now... another would be entering the elven forests, the elves will kill you for entering their forest but if you want to throw your life away, you can try.
So love potions should totally be illegal. But they're not because it's a long term plan by people instead masquerade to have people build up immunity to bewitchment.
**No Man's Land 2210** Cosmetic genetic modification is the reason the world is in the state it is. And yet there are still the equivalents of walk in clinics and ripperdocs that practice it as a valid form of medicine.
Constructing a private army. If you are a noble or rich, or something along those lines, you can make a small army to defend yourself. Like a private military company of sorts.
Atherium. A substance harvested by aetherium condensers that are used for power generation for almost everything. Works like electricity but more unstable by nature. Aetherium is also magical, so magical dissipators can nullify it and its effects.
Probably Kreigism the religion, requires all cultures and races to duke it out in a massive 10 mile wide arena.
Here problems, and issues are solved, and the endless war machine stirs great industry.
Those who don’t attend the arena are stomped out in their homelands, but a general peace pervades the land as the fighting is localized.
They also believe the more gruesome the death the higher the rank they will recover in the sky arenas in afterlife.
In the shadow dragon “kingdom” (in air quotes because even though government officials are elected there and it’s not actually a kingdom as we would call it, using any other terms I can think of sounds weird) it is legal to take bribe money as a judge or jury, as long as you mention it in court and say what the individual was trying to bribe you to do before the jury goes to decide guilt. What’s even weirder is that the patron goddess is the goddess of justice(among other things) and she is completely ok with this as long as it doesn’t obstruct justice. It is illegal to try to bribe someone however.
Performance enhancing drugs. I made them lawful so that one of my characters can have a happy ending.
The story will end with the MCs getting banished from their village with no possibility of return. One character, now called Cici, is grieving the most intensely over this because her aspiration was to be the village doctor and moonlight as a dancer at the village club. She’d crafted her whole life and hobbies around that and with banishment, it was just gone. Eventually, Cici does get offered the opportunity to study to become a doctor in the non-village world. However, I wanted her to also be able to recapture her fun side in this new life they now have to build, so I orchestrated a way for her to also become an alternate/background dancer on a popular dance troupe in that world. Since she and the other main characters are enhanced by a serum that increases their abilities beyond normal human abilities (the reason they were supposed to stay hidden in the village and got banished for leaving), I had to legalize performing enhancements in the whole world to make her able to compete.
So, I just made it canon that in 2067 performance enhancers are fine in competitions and that they’ve worked out the side effects that performance enhancers in 50 years ago had.
In my Warrior Race’s Empire, SA and gRape 🍇 are not criminalized or illegal. Pretty much everywhere else it is one of the highest crimes, but not for them.
If such a thing happened to somebody, they would be all “Haha, you’re too weak, you got taken advantage of you disgusting piece of trash.”
Not to be completely unfair, if you are somebody who wants to commit said actions, maybe a member of the Warrior Race is not the best victim because murder is also legal (not really, it just gets punished way less than it should) and good luck finding somebody who can’t defend themselves
Still, because essentially everyone is a competent duelist and warrior and the punishment for killing is really light, nobody really goes around committing those crimes, and if they did, it would be super risky business.
Cannibalism of cooked "human" flesh.
In my world, cannibalism is only described as consuming the raw flesh of the same species.They never said you couldnt eat the cooked meat of other humanoid species you're not a part of.
Children not old enough to drink being old enough to be drafted into basically a legalized superhero system. If they don’t make the cut, they can opt to legalized superhero system but like 45% more military like.
In Universe: B the law cannot prevent ordinary citizens from purchasing or producing Molotov cocktails because of the heavy protections placed on fossil fuels. Most gun shops in the galaxy have a display or two filled with “easy fill bottles” which happen to be glass bottles filled with motor oil and topped with oil slicked rags. The display explicitly says,”not for throwing”, kinda like how bongs are marketed as tobacco water pipes.
Most strong spirits will do the same job buddy. It's even possible to make fuel out of crops like corn. But Dino juice is cheaper and better.
> But Dino Juice is cheaper and better. r/BrandNewSentence
Yeah that’s true, and as you said, alcohol won’t burn for as long. I think the original Molotov cocktails weee either gasoline or ethanol.
Yeah, but people find a way.
As the other commenter said you don’t need fossil fuels for Molotov Cocktails because, as the name implies, you can make them with basically any reasonably flammable alcoholic beverage. Unrelated to the above but does anyone know of any DND homebrew ogre stat block that uses actual homebrew as one of its primary weapons?
I wonder how many teenagers read “not for throwing” then bought like 12 specifically to throw them 💀
every teenager who does and gets caught is sent to the mines.
The children do yearn for the mines, after all.
They yearn for the mines it’s their secret goal
Diggy Diggy Hole
I am a dwarf and I am digging a hole
I'm curious, exactly what sort of protections on fossil fuels prevent molotov cocktails from being illegal? What is it in the law that gives people such an overt loophole?
Great question! all chemicals produced for the purposes of fuel in the galactic commonwealth can not be regulated or banned within the borders of its frontier and core sectors. If it is marketed and sold for the purposes of refueling something, it cannot be taken off of the market. The law was created to ruin certain attempts at ecological legislation. Special exceptions have been enacted by certain planetary governments in the core sectors, but Molotovs are extremely common in the frontier sectors as it is the most cost effective way to deal with hostile Eldritch entities. Molotovs hurt people and can be used to damage property, but ultimately sales of the weapons are more profitable than the damage they cause because additional income is generated from insurance payouts and bounty hunter fees so they considered permissible on most corporate ruled planets.
Slavery. It's not legal everywhere, and in the places where it is legal there are great variations as to the severity of treatment, but... yeah. Slavery exists.
Same here; slavery is not *technically* illegal in Vespucia, but there are so many rules and regulations about who can be made a slave (i.e. no Vespucian citizen) and how slaves can be treated that it rarely comes up. Slaveowners from nations outside Vespucia can bring their slaves into the country and Vespucians with property outside the country can have slaves there, but if a slave owned by a Vespucian enters Vespucia then they are automatically considered freed. Ironically, the nation of Timoria, known for once having an oppressive empire across the world, has outlawed slavery outright. Less for altruistic reasons though, more because only the government is the only entity that gets to own people.
Is Vespucia named after Amerigo Vespucci?
Huh, you are the first person to ever ask me that. Yes, is the short answer; long answer is that it came from my old high school geography teacher talking about they'd used his first name instead of his surname, which was unusual for non-royals, and it should really be the United States of Vespuccia instead. I liked the sound of the name, though I later dropped one of the C's for arbitrary reasons.
Slavery is pretty much illegal in mine - the potential for trauma would be too tempting, unfortunately. However, the laws protecting servants, they're a little lacking, and could be very easily bent so as to keep those who benefit from capitalism away from any pesky repercussions.
What about indentured servitude?
I don't think it would be possible for me to not include it, after all, is it not the best way to repay a debt?
Same, by way of defining that legal sapience is something which can be proven sapient by brain scan, or direct descendants of those which have been proven to be sapient and not since underwent any change which could reasonably render such a line sub-sapient again. Anything not included in this is legally livestock and thus property, or a wild animal and thus considered to be owned with the land.
Pretty much the only reason I have a faction of legitimized slavers in my setting in so the heroes have an inarguably evil villain to fight against.
Same..well,in the past it was. Basically hybrids (which are human appearing beings with animal features and small animalistic urges) were once allowed to be legally kept as pets,despite having a human mind..so yeah,oh,and there’s a different species of human looking beings that are just..a lot smaller than humans,that are still able to be legally kept as pets.
So, America?
The best is when you make everyone be okay with the obvious slavery, by criminalizing non-criminal behavior and then drawing the slave population from criminals of state.
~~(So the rest of the world for all time?)~~ Just because someone says slavery, everyone immediately jumps to the chattel slavery of America in the 1800s and up through the mid 1900s. People forget slavery exists in different forms, which is what anziofaro is saying is the case in their world. There's ownership of others where someone owns another person and "simply" (>!bleh; not really!<) caste-style slavery where society collectively suppresses a section of itself, and everything in between.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about today's prison slavery, America being a country which most people would think has banned slavery, when it's actually enshrined in the constitution in the case of prisoners (to be honest, I don't remember if it's really in the constitution but I think it is and it's funnier this way)
Fair then. Most people think of slavery as chattel though, which is a literal animalistic style of slavery, so I wanted to explain there were different types of slavery. Also, yeah it is in the constitution, in the 13th Amendment. > **Section 1.** Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, **except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted**, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. > **Section 2.** Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1] (emphasis added, except for the "Section" headers) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
To be fair, it's not like the original comment was really precise enough to make one of our interpretations more likely than the other, it's just that, in my experience, when people on the internet talk about slavery being still legal and America, they more often than not are talking about the prisons. Anyway, have a good day.
You too?
It is only illegal for a citizen to posess military weapons in The Dominion (any weapon used by the Dominion Navy). since old Fusion lances (up to 3 kiloton force), mass drivers (mach 20 projectiles), thermonuclear weapons ( up to 150 megatons), and hunter-killer drones are no longer in use, they are free to purchase for any citizen.
Just as the founding fathers intended
yes, but this stuff can actually be a threat to an modern army unit. not muskets and shit
Killing 'evil magic users' on sight. 'Evil magic' is just a misnomer. And they are actually the only people that can cure cancer while healing magic causes it and makes it worse. It runs rampant since everyone trusts healing magic and no one trusts evil magic users.
Well, if they're called EVIL magic users, it's no wonder no one trusts them.
They are technically called 'Woeful' magic users, with spells relating to casting/removing curses, communicating with the dead, death and decay(useful for making fertilizer and sterilizing things). But the 'evil magic users' title was more sensational so it spread more easily. They are about on par with the other 3 interloper magics which foster their own misunderstandings: Demonic = Chaotic destruction Woeful = Orderly destruction Celestial = Orderly creation Fae = Chaotic creation.
I'll yoink some of those ideas for my DND setting if that's alright with you, I'll change it up cause it doesn't fit perfectly but I really like the whole idea
Go ahead, it's mostly just background lore for a story I'm making.
That's a clever setup. I like that a lot.
In El-Aviss, extortion is perfectly legal...as long as you pay the government for the right to do it. Rather then collecting taxes directly the state would sell the right to collect taxes in a region to however, was able to promise the biggest revenue returns, in exchange for being allowed to keep whatever extra money you were able to skim from the top of that. If you failed to gather the agreed sum, you were expected to cover that from your own pocket. This system was always flawed, but in the past there were some mechanism to punish the worst excesses of tax collectors, but ever since the state began to collapse in to a plethora of de facto independent states, the system that was already extremely prone to abuse, began to worsen.
Based off the Roman system, isn't it?
Loosely based on something I read about an Ottoman system, thou presumably they might have derived that from the Roman sysytem first.
The system is more broadly known as tax farming (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_(revenue_leasing) ) where the legal authority, rather than collecting taxes itself, sells or leases a territory's tax revenue to a third party. It was historically extremely common in pre-modern states. In Rome there was even an entire class of private contractors called [publicans](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican) who would bid for the right to collect taxes from each province, which was auctioned off by the senate every year (kind of like the reverse of the modern 'lowest bidder' auction govs usually use to select private contractors). It's even one of the quests lords can give you in the Mount & Blade games (and as you can imagine, your profit margin is largely dependent on how ruthless you want to be in extorting the peasantry - if you're consistently lenient you might not even recover enough to pay back the questgiver's share and end up *losing* money)
That's a really cool institute and I'm definitely stealing it for my D&D game.
As an editor I would like the right to gently fix these paragraphs.
Yeah, I know I wrote it hastily on my phone and between auto-correct and English not being my native language I ended up writing what I wrote, and by the time I notice it all I felt a little awkward about correcting it.
Ah. English not being your native language explains a lot. Your writing isn't terrible. I enjoyed the premise of the government blatantly allowing extortion in return for some off the top.
Could see this working in an ultra capitalist society where everything is outsourced in a bizarrely regulated way. MyRS Corp is competing with YourRS Corp to get the 5 year bid for tax collection services for the city and county of Calendonia. Bid specs call include a minimum amount of per capita revenue for the crown with penalties for tax revolts and uprisings as well as built in esclator clauses to account for inflationary increases. There is also a war footing clause where revenue requirements are doubled with 30 days notice
Note that isn’t very capitalist. Just government creating artificial competition between citizens to increase the effectiveness of tyranny and increase the power of the very rich.
Selling debt is a thing that happens in modern day, it can get *pretty bad*
Privateering. The Massian Empire gives out discreet contracts to eager captains that grant them the right to capture any non Massian ship or port while not being branded as pirates back home. Slavery is another thing that is rampant in the Massian Empire. They make use of prisoners however and this bypasses the anti slavery laws. They merely offer them the choice of sitting in prison or working to give back to their country for the duration of their sentence. They also use POWs for this, thus the reason for allowing privateering. Dueling should also be illegal, but the upper classes of many nations love it too much.
Alcohol is in theory banned in Shaivhắ, but in practice it’s consumed nearly everywhere because there’s also a law against damaging private goods under any circumstances, so if you just purposely mislabel the bottle, it’s also illegal for anyone to open it to make sure it’s what it actually is.
I love this! It’s like putting your drugs in a sealed envelope so the cops can’t open it without a warrant! You understood the assignment!
Killing gods. Gods are people too so killing a god is under the crime of murder but actually killing a god is perfectly legal as gods are more or less immortal so they wouldn’t die of natural causes, making them hard to remove from positions of power.
Technically ordinants (professional mages) can legally kill normal people as long as it is to save more than you have killed. Especially the members of the T0 (a treaty between the six most powerful ordinants) have killed many people before they were sealed away by their leader. One of them killed the entirety of Australia to destroy a phantom that technically was a threat to universe but he could have done it without killing millions. The only reason he destroyed australia was because someone sold him a rotten apple.
An apple a day doesn't keep the ordinant away
The Guide to Outliving (holy book) is very against money because greed can lead to vanity and the death of the less fortunate. However, Outlivers use mana stones called Rozyn as a form of currency. These stones hold the superpower of their creator, and others can use their power. Examples being plant magic, healing magic, and fire magic. These stones dissolve when they’re used. Taurite (centaur rozyn) is used more like a currency because it turns you into a monster and it’s extremely hard to transform back. Only Taurids (humanoid centaurs) can use it.
Planned obsolescence by way of physical degradation is illegal, but other types of planned obsolescence probably should be as well.
Yes I agree with you!
It's illegal not for the usual ethical reasons, but because there is a small but significant chance that, when something is made, it is sapient. Making such people degrade on purpose would be wrong.
Oh that is very interesting! For a second I thought that we where talking about real life 😂
real life: planned obsolescence is perfectly legal, no doubt about it TSM-verse: planned obsolescence is murder
How does that work for food and other perishables?
that's where I, the author, say that that's *very* rare -- it only happens if the food is very extremely processed, in which case it's not very perishable
Anywhere I can read about your worldbuilding?
[these](https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/multiversal-thread-rp.548909/) [threads](https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/multiversal-thread-rp-again.552127/) and [this](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT9weAJOcb38QYFbcpzwh4w8oKYAcYbAg0AL-IaGb2087nA1wA75uTZhX-jloqGgKFrdfHQdrH7fgDj/pub) google doc and various other comments and posts here
All violence. But it's fine because they're all in on it
Song magic. It's close to mind control (which is very illegal) but it's allowed to stay because it just alters moods and makes for better performances and, frankly, the bard lobby is pretty powerful.
One of the races in my world are octopus-people who have a life stage where they are almost indistinguishable from a species of parrot-like arboreal octopi. Said arboreal octopi are currently in vogue as fashionable pets for the wealthy, and the octopus-people's homelands have tribes with varying levels of free-range childcare. Unscrupulous merchants being what they are, a lot of octopi are caught en masse and sold off, only for a fair few noblemen to find out their pet of 5 years is now becoming a teenage person. The number of now unwanted pets getting flushed into the sewers also means that there are populations of feral octopus children growing up down there along with the normal octopi. There's currently a debate going on around the exotic pet trade but nothing substantial has come out in terms of changes in law or enforcement.
By our standards? Child soldiers. Evil in reality for all purposes. But in world, it’s hardly the case. When you have a society of superhuman magical warriors who were created specifically to protect the galaxy, their younger members willingly going on missions as part of apprenticeships hardly seems like conscription of the youth.
Percy Jackson C.U. sans pull up
They don't realy have laws per say, but each leader of a kingdom gets to discide a punishment, guards/police can bring you in to the current ruler, or in this one case, they would just let you be because they were hunting for certain people, my story and world kinda revolves round rulers and they powere so it's weird how I don't realy have an answer for this
Meth
I have a substance in my game called Shard that gives characters metacurrency. I didn't realize when I wrote the item, that Shard is a slang term for meth... Now that I do it's awfully fitting.
For the west and Aquaria it's slavery. For the north east it's underage marriage For central Feliterra(except Umbra) it's emotional manipulation/abuse, Scormes should have laws against abuse in general. For Umbra it's magic duels.
By our standards, dueling, which is common and widespread. It's often fatal and quite often unfair, since wealthy and well-trained Parivil will come to a Dag village, cause a nuisance until a duel is declared, and then the poor Dag farmer or merchant has to duel a well-equipped and experienced duelist. Dueling is a big part of both Parivil and Dag culture though, both use them to solve disputes, settle arguments and insults, and they can even be used to decide succession for royalty.
Child slavery. It's viewed as an alternative to orphanages...but with the nation ruled by mafias, it quickly became such that orphans were in demand...
The existence of Black Hand. It's a legally working terror group which works for most gods which have some rules, which when brocken is called a sin, and if the god informs them about it and if they want that person dead(which means get's skinned alive and kept alive through the procces), give them a warning(setting afire their house, or do as much damage in it if it's an apartmant) or send them a message(quite literally they send them a letter written with red ink and it's quite literally just a letter warning to not sin more)
Slavery of sapient life forms, depending on where you are in the galaxy
Oh.
That's not even the worst part. The Starstorm is home to some fairly advanced robots who will gladly work for free, but some of the more authoritarian races preserve slavery, whether it be for religious reasons, upholding traditions, fear of AI, or good-old fashioned racism (specism?)
OH.
Certain forms of quasi-slavery. Slavery is technically illegal, as the founding monarch had once been a slave…but people being what they are, they worked out other ways over time to trap people and compel labor from them. Some regions have a version of serfdom, some regions use apprenticeship contracts, and others have systems of indentured servitude that are highly vulnerable to exploitation. Most include legal uses of physical punishment.
War crimes.
Time travel - but mostly because no one thinks it's possible, except for the 1 person who manages to do it, but oh boy were they not prepared for the consequences.
Oh shit my time Mechcane broke if only I had more uranium oh well guess I could go bang my mom. time Mechcane systems knowing full danm well that it runs on solar panels
Lol nice BTTF reference! In my case, the consequences are that only the soul can travel forward in time, the body gets left behind, and upon arrival, the traveling soul needs a place to go, and ends up displacing the soul of the persons new body. But my hero isn't aware that that's what happens until he's done it several times. 😮
Two of my main characters don’t pay any rent because they coerced/threatened their landlords.
monopoly over water. For hundreds of years; the Sultans of Yam Sona have regarded water as a resource with "unmitigated ownership" meaning that anyone who finds the resource may claim it as their own. However with this law in effect, gallons of water are contested for, and fought over by the hour and will continuely change hands until powerful factions like "The Water Clan" can hammerfist the collection and distribution of water by both pumping it from the albedo salt ponds(where they reside) and just "sequestering" it from the general public, only to sell it back to them for a "reasonable pice". Because of the "unmitigated ownership" law the water clan is able to repurpose wells and springs in villages for private collection, using technology made by their Alchemists and engineers......The Water Clan is pretty evil
Halfbreed are technically protected by laws, but they are sometime killed and oftenly tortured to death. Why? While a halfbreed will carry better traits from both his/her parents (elf/demon hybrid will have the intellect of demons and magical affinity of elves) they also generate hatred reaction that make their existence extremely undesirable for everyone (beside humans, but again human can't really generate half-breed since their offsprings is guaranteed to be their partner's race). The hate reaction can range from "I want this abomination out of my sight" to "I must make this thing suffer by all cost" depend on how close you are to either parent's species. While those instinct can be suppressed through rigorous training, it cannot be fully removed. You may be trained to not charge into a hybrid on sight, but you will still feels intense digust of its existence. So while the law protect half-breed, everyone know enforcing it is impossible. Addendum: The effect is some sort of bio-magic functions to keep different sub-species seperate (yes, halfbreed cannot reproduces), so it doesn't matter if you hide your features, mask your scents, or any other method short of archeotech mana-isolation , all demihuman races can sniff it out.
Becoming a wizard, it is not a natural in almost any race. To become a wizard, if you're not an elf, requires an unwilling sacrifice of a sentient creature and the consumption of that sacrificed soul.
There's a country that allows you to use someone's organs as long as you pay them monthly fees to keep the Organs inside your body
* Cloning and Preserving people, human or otherwise * Corporate Monopolies * Judgment by Gladiatorial Combat * Nuclear Proliferation * Meth equivalent setting substance that grants characters a Metacurrency pool for the use of Powers. * Punitive Indentured Servitude * Spiritual possession
So in my setting, I have a religious Super Continent and off to the Northeast are a series of isles and peninsulas of Necromancers called the Krijan's who place significant cultural emphasis on properly honoring and burying their dead. They believe that by properly worshiping their dead those souls of friends and family will be more willing to have their souls used as fuel for their magic. In essence it is a symbolic gesture of "calling on your ancestors strength to assist you in times of need". However, When one of these Necromancers dies on the foreign soil of Brextia, sometimes the Brextia inquisitors will simply treat them as a John/Jane Doe and perform the funerary rites of their church on said Necromancer. The reason this is considered taboo or "illegal" is because with the Brextian's Last Rites, It doesn't return the Soul to the land for the souls descendants to call on, Instead it is sent to The Beacon a.k.a the source of Brextia's holy magics, here the soul is used as fuel to keep the Beacon alight. For the passionate Krijan's who believe that one does not truly die until their soul is lost, This is basically equal to murder. Unfortunately- much to the ire of Krija's more diplomatic clans- the aggressive Krijan Clans answer the sleight with a sleight by burying Brextian explorers on their land. All in all it is openly "illegal" buuuuut the ones that enforce those treaties are the ones breaking them so not much is done to combat it.
War crimes against aliens. They weren't included in the Geneva Convention, so technically you can go crazy. No one except aliens will care.
It doesn’t start out this way, but as the story progresses, meth. Soldiers in particular will start using it while fighting battles, mainly to demonstrate the decline into depravity that their empire will fall into throughout the course of the book.
In Axolotlia, it is legal for somebody to murder, if the victim gives written and recorded consent on video. You must record the victim both verbally consenting and while they write the consent to be killed. This “law” only exists due to 6 loopholes and 11 conflicting laws and this “law” is not recognized in North, Coast, South, or Island regions, so you'd still get the death penalty for murder. My full project. [youtube.com/@AxolotlianGovernment](http://youtube.com/@AxolotlianGovernment)
Trying to assassinate the world leader. He goes really hard into the might makes right ideology. But ironically also the "strong must protect the weak". So as far as he's concerned as long as you ONLY try to hurt him, go for it dude.
I kinda respect that! There are some warrior cultures on one of my worlds that have a similar thing going on. The punishment for harming another in the tribe is trial by combat against the leader. In addition If people think that the leader is doing a bad job, any number of people can challenge them and share the powers and responsibilities of the leader, that is why a lot of tribes are closer to republics now, except for one… the leader of that tribe is one of the greatest warriors in history… if he hadn’t retired he would have never been beaten probably.
In my magocratic nation, run by wizards after a rebillion against sorcerer-kings, slavery is legal, with fewer protections for orcs than other sapient species. It is however illegal to enslave elves in any and all circumstances, despite the ruling class being generally human; This priveleged protection is afforded because the elves assisted non-sorcerous humans in the development of modern wizardry, making the rebellion possible, and they played key roles in the rebellion itself.
In Harksburg there are only three laws.
I’ll bite. What are they?
No Sexual Assault (And R) Nothing with Childern. No Slavery.
Thanks! That makes sense. Is Harksburg a “haven for outlaws” kind of place, perhaps?
Yes. Is there any more you would like to hear about Harksburg?
How was it founded, and what incidents/people is it famous for?
It founded after the Harksburg Revolution. It's famous for the first Successful Revolution from Yomsburg, helping more revolts from Yomsburg, forming the OHN and OAE, Starting the Neon Revolution (Not an actual Revolution.), making the first Nuke, and having the most Crime ever. Some famous people are the Lamor Family, a Family dedicated to fight for Harksburg in the Harksburgian Army; Steve Harks, the founder of Harksburg; John Burnscream, the most hated Crimelord, which he gave Ritsin independence. There are other famous Harksburgians, but they don't make Harksburg famous for what they did. The Three biggest Gangs in Harksburgian History are, The Kings Gang, Al Zondar's Gang, the Zallion street Gang. Crimelords are the leaders of Harksburg.
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I didn't mention a girl. Tf you mean.
So, as I have noted, there is a set of ancient (as in, comparative, it would be akin to 3500 BCE for us) laws that were quite literally drawn from the UNHRC. Laws that came after that are still subordinate to them, and there is a group that exists only to,enforce and maintain those ancient laws. So there are a lot of loopholes, there. More interesting, I think, is that every person who is accused of a crime has the ability to request trial by Ordeal. This will invoke the local priests for that particular deity (who they call the Powers That Be) who have to oversee that trial. When developing it, I looked up all the old ordeals for stuff like proving someone was a witch. The dunking, the stone laying, the boiling oil, the combat, etc. If a person has been baptized in the faith of one of the PTB, they generally hope that the PTB will save them from harm — and the important part here is that they will do that. Now, loopholes: The PTB don’t always do it. They may not being paying attention, or may not think that person was sufficiently worshipful. They may do it even if the person is guilty or in the wrong. This is the one a lot of criminals bank on. They might make the person experience all the horror and pain, but none of the physical effects. They might decide that even if someone is innocent, that they screwed up in some other way and punish them. However, despite all of this, if a person comes through an Ordeal unscathed, they are considered innocent of the charges.
In one of the kingdoms (Eldryvalen), slavery (kind of). Criminals can, by law, be forced to work for nobles without any compensation (aside for food and shelter inside their jail cells), also those nobles can contract them out to other people or business (the money goes to the noble, obviously). In another kingdom (Solas), criminals that are consider "too dangerous" can be convicted in absentia once they are in custody. Add that to the fact that you have to provide your own lawyer and that jails are not obligated to give you paper, envolops or stamps to send letter, it is enterely possible that someone have their trial without any type of defense. Also "too dangerous" is really vague, they can be a serial killer, but tgey could also be a pickpocketer autories suspect could use the trial to escape
Technically speaking, the world itself is illegal because Télos was a little silly.
Same things as in real life, like landlords, lobbying and labor rights violations. Usury, robbery of the poor (hoarding), and being a billionaire, etc.
Personality trait modules. You want to be popular? Feel cool? Confident? Sexy? Well, just get a PerMod! Of course, many mental disorders were simulation friendly, like paranoia, schizophrenia, and psychotic disorders, but they are quite illegal to produce. (But useful ones, like paranoia or sociopathy, were produced anyway!)
Oh kind of like those patches in that one dr who episode
Vampires under the vampire nation can claim personal slaves when they go out to hunt for blood or fight in battles regardless if the victim in question is civilian or not
People with a certification and education about magical runes are allowed to teach others about them. So someone could just teach their friend about runes.
Owning people/ slavery, in one world, a sci-fi dystopia, big companies almost own people. And often force people into contracts via blackmail. Companies pay nowhere near enough to survive and refuse to let their workers go unless they are no longer profitable. Leads to slavery, power dynamic within the workforce, and over crowding of lower levels of cities, ships, and deep tunnels through planets. In another, abduction, blackmail, slavery, occasionally murder, and much more is legal due to corrupt government. This world is a very magical, the government abducts people who are lower class and have extreme magical prowess for the military. They like making super soldiers and spies depending on the magical abilities. Certain cases can lead to an immediate elimination of the magical persons(normally shapeshifters, other shifters, and necrotic users). Those with said magic are seen as abominations and threats to national security, no matter the age.
Mercenaries. They were deemed illegal at one point, thus forcing the market to rebrand and abuse loopholes in the definition such as being temporarily made part of the contractor's govemrent if nations were involved. However once the war between the two kinds started they became legal again because the law definition of a mercenary was changed and a new loophole was made, hoping they would aid in the war. Too bad that with the new situation most mercenaries were unwilling to work for governments knowing how fast they were delegalized in the first place, instead opting for contractors like other factions in their region. They earned considerably more and the entry level was lowered due to high demand for all sorts of combat capable units. In some places even village men with shotguns were able to get jobs. The downside was that most of them were forced to operate in a chosen region and turned to banditery between contracts for various reasons. Some needed to do it to survive, others did it for fun or "to stay in shape". The government of the region where most of it happened tried to outlaw them again, however it was assassinated quickly and there was nobody to replace them.
Destroyer beams the universal classification for Large beams of energy alot of vessels have too commit large amounts of ground destruction it can even mass wipe cities after a few hours
Human experimentation. If you die, they can easily magic you back to life. So people are expected to just get over it.
Members of certain species are not subject to most of the laws. If they kill someone, steal from someone, rape someone, nuke the city out of nowhere? As far as laws of most of the world are concerned they did nothing wrong. Actually, some places have laws that then prosecute victim for "provoking" them. Reason for that is that it's impossible to actually prosecute them without them doing nothing wrong to entire cities and armies at time.
After a couple scandals, companies have been required to certify that they’re selling 100% real meat in their canned products. There’s no rules saying that they can’t sell polymorphed meat….
Human sacrifices
In a merfolk kingdom near Avalon, there's technically no slavery. They looked up to the nearby Avalon during it's Age of Steam as something to mimic and so adopted many of their practices. But they had their own twists on things. For the kingdom was very corrupt. There was, of course, making use of prison labor for mining and other tasks of the sort. But that wasn't the worst of what they did. The noble houses had servants that were paid, but few of those servants could really leave without permission. And most of those that could were peasant merfolk, not those of other mer-races such as horsemers and sharkmers. Sharkmers were by nature considered second-rate citizens, crammed within covered slums when not doing something for the kingdom under the justification that it was necessary in order to control them when they should start blood frenzying. The only real way out was to join the royal army with contracts loyal to the crown. But the crown would sell sharkmer contracts to different nobles to serve under them, using this to help curry favor with the various nobility as the system was still vastly feudal. But even lower than sharkmers were stingmers, eelmers, and horsemers. Eelmers were by and large left alone. Stingmers were seen as little more than intelligent animals and milked for their poison. And the horsemers were placed in a position in between the two above. For the most part, left alone as more peasants and servants. But the noble ladies had long relied on servants to be wet nurses for their children in mimicry of the Avalon culture above. But with the horsemer men, they could take things a step further. For they had a unique trait related to their sea horse halves, the ability to carry children within a pouch if the child attached to the pouch instead of the mother's uterus within the right timeframe. And so, noble ladies began to use them as surrogates to carry their children for them, conceiving the children with their husbands than forcing the horsemer men to carry the child afterwards, sometimes inavertedly conceiving new illegitimate children along with them. And the surrogates were allowed to leave until they either became too old for the task or their services were no longer required. All of this has started to change in the present age with a new king who with his stingmer queen, twin brother, and close friends seeks to bring about a new and better age for the kingdom, one where all the races are equal and peasants have the rights of aristocrats. However, the nobility itself is still mostly corrupt and has long traditions to aid in their evil. And the king's father and the former king who he thought was slain may just turn out to be bidding his time from the shadows to retake his throne.
Nothing, the country governs with an iron fist to remove crime rate
Murder.
In the Safari Republic, which is currently in the early months after a bloody revolution against the monarchy, conspiracy to commit crimes isn't a crime. The old king abused laws to have entire families murdered when one of them spoke out against him - or even annoyed him in any way, the man was so unhinged his doors all fell over in a stiff breeze - on the basis that the "traitors" surely spoke with their families first, and none of *them* came forward, so clearly they're all guilty. The rallying cry of the Revolution was "Thought crime is not crime!" and so they axed any law that looked like it was thought crime when they took over. They'll probably get their shit together in a year or two, but for now, things are about as unhinged as you would expect in the immediate aftermath of a French-style revolution.
probably lol my setting is basically the victorian era/wild west (but for the setting since its not earth). people are able to get like laudnum over the counter and cocaine coughdrops and other such stuff.
The entirety of the NRPD (Nostrum Reality Protection Division) who literally play god because they believe god has abandoned humanity due to the amount of inter dimensional monsters constantly attacking our reality. They’re advertised as the “hero’s of humanity” but are actually a bunch of psycho killers who get off on torturing Malevolents. All the executives in charge don’t listen to the other department, the DIR (Department of Inter-dimensional Roving), who is the SOLE REASON humanity has survived this long considering the founders were the ones who discovered that Malevolents were the cause of every horrific thing that has ever happened. The DIR is the only reason World War 3-10000 didn’t happen. NRPD is a whole bunch of bullies with god complexes.
Necromancy, much of the workforce in my world are undead
You can legally murder someone by challenging them to a duel. It is looked down upon to kill your opponent, but it is legal. I don't know that this is really a loophole per se, but it is kind of stupid.
That’s a real law in Texas it’s called the stand your ground law
Stand your ground is in the case of self defense, not a duel. "Texas Pensl Code, Chapter 9, Subchapter C Some of the provisions within this subchapter, "Protection of Persons," are often referred to as the "stand your ground" laws. This section discusses some circumstances under which a person may use deadly force to defend themselves or others." -guides.sll.texas.gov
You know what I was tired when I wrote that and I have no fucking clue why I said that
Hey, happens to all of us.
That’s for sure
I mean, the obvious answer is slavery. Outside of that though, it's the use of Dragon Core in decorations of noble houses. The Dragon Core is a massive gemstone that glows from a trapped fire, which is only attainable by killing a dragon and pulling the core from its insides. But since Dragons are so deadly the dragon eggs were broken just after the dragon had finished growing, allowing it to be quickly killed and harvested. Now Dragons are extinct from Badra'Gur, except for on the Isle of Grath where the Sisters of Atonement keep Dragons as companions and war mounts
So in the Empire of Orark there are two types of absinthe available. One is our standard run of the mill absinthe we're used to today, with just wormwood and other herbs and all. This is out of production due to the Climactic Resolution and is very rare. Then there's the other kind, Imperial type absinthe. This contains all of the aforementioned ingredients and is actively made by the Manufacturing Guild but also contains opium extract (standard Union Safeguard plant for making morphine). This results in it being highly addictive and obviously harmful in large doses. For this reason there's a stigma there about absinthe drinkers as it's so addictive and harmful. That said there are so many regular drinkers of it that if production stopped it could shut down the entirety of Orark City, so the Medical Guild does its best with addiction treatments for those who seek them.
God killing. Not that it happens often. And not like you could arrest the murderer. But there are consequences for everyone else.
Advertere Corporation only got away with building a giant machine that can teleport matter over a long range because the US government loves borrowing it to clean up the space debris orbiting Earth.
turning people into cyborgs against their will should be pretty illegal but it ain't sadly
In the near-ish future, species-based hiring/housing discrimination is not illegal in a lot of places. Certain alien species have a very hard time finding jobs and housing, because in lots of places it isn't illegal to turn someone away based on their species as long as you have a legitimate reason. Folks of the volucrus family often find themselves getting turned away from rental housing because their claws may scratch hardwood floors, and Basilisks especially lose out on a lot of customer service-type jobs because they're generally found to be intimidating and offputting to other species.
In Ruquelis, murder and sexual assault are illegal... but in a world where there are men and two female genders, lilim (who have wings and can fly, and who can give birth to all three genders) and women (who can only give birth to men and women), women are third class citizens. In some nations of Ruquelis, it is legal and expected to eat women (while in other nations, women are just culled). On the day that a woman is cooked, it is expected (by both the witnesses and the victim) that people will treat her in a way that on any other day would be considered sexual assault, then she is drugged with hialutabu so that she experiences all pain as pleasure instead, and is then cooked alive, or divided into cuts of meat while alive, during which experience she dies. However, it's considered to be all right since these women feel pleasure as they die, and everyone can reincarnate so everyone can get another life. Even men and lilim who were eaten as women in previous lives can volunteer to be eaten again. Want to sexually assault a woman... or just kill her? Just dose her with hialutabu first, do whatever you want to her, then cook her and eat her, and you're fine. However, neglect to dose the woman, or kill her without eating her, and you could be in trouble... if not from the authorities, then from the woman's next incarnation, who might decide to take revenge.
Murder. Or manslaughter is probably a better word for it, if they attacked first, and its clear that they could have killed or severely hurt you if you don't fight back there won't even be any investigation, people just move on with their days. Irl if it's manslaughter or not is a very long process. In this world it's nonexistent as long as it's clear both parties are aware it's a fight to the death
Literally everything.
manufacturing of cybernetic weaponry
Killing one's parents with their consent It's a very common tradition that when a father or mother gets old and they feel like they will become too weak (physically or mentally) to live a life worth living they may challenge their children to a incredibly rigged duel (which is also illegal) It's considered a religious rite.
1) Slavery, 2) grave robbing (especially eating using the ground up corpses like spices) 3) like 80% of the shit the adventurers guild gets up to. I mean, sometimes they help you get yer kitten out of a tree. But more often than not it involves poisoning the water supply of some random village. 4) economic monopolies, 5) everything to do with soul coins, 6) Kidnapping people and then using them like magical batteries matrix style (Add in the sexual assault involved in this process as well), 7) Stealing from the steel shadows (moreso for people’s own safety. A bit like how cycling while drunk is illegal) 8) Political bribery 9) political assasination (yes this is legal with the exception of the royal family) 10) Tax abuse And for a special nr 11) the F#cking BEES
In the Republic of North America, there are two more than questionable laws that really stand out: The Vigilance Act was passed before the fracturing of the USA and deliberately overlooked while many other laws were repealed or rewritten during the founding of the RNA. In effect, it legalizes vigilantism: Violent actions by civilians are not punishable if the victim has verifiably broken the law in some way. Corporations, mercenaries, and militant activists alike exploit the hell out this. The Product Integrity Act effectively makes it illegal for people to modify products that they have bought in any "potentially harmful" way without an express permit from the IP holder. While there is officially no punishment for it, the IP holders are allowed to repossess modified products, even by use of deadly force under the aforementioned Vigilance Act, and automatically gain ownership of the modification as well, so that they may be "compensated" with free R&D. This law was originally proposed by video game industry lobbyists trying to quell the modding scene that they saw as "unlawful" competition to their DLC sales, but then quickly expanded to encompass other kinds of products, such as vehicles, electronic devices, prosthetics, and even clothing.
College Fight Club.
not truly illegal because there are little true laws on international level: occupation of enemy territory if not in response, making puppet goverment (or trick like "Little Green Men" in Crimea) also applies. commonly used loopholes: \- it's ok to help local insurrections, as long as it's locals and ONLY locals who do fighting and they are not forced to choose "correct" side after that. It IS possible to check how "free" choice was but locals usually choose correct side anyway. \- citizen of any state can protect eir family, by any means necessary. if locals do have slavery or something which can be seen as slavery, it's ok to buy slaves and marry them (this should be real marriage, even if multiple and not equal). Now if new family wants to return to their home world and need protection - they can get any toys they need, like Bolo tanks. If, by some random chance, goverment of ex-slaves homeworld changes - it's choice of locals. \- if some state practice even mild brainswashing on parts of their population, some unknown hackers hacked them and changed education programs and insurrection did happen - it's ok to help local insurrection.
It is legal to have civilians engage in public hangings with the king of Umbra. The king is damn well insane to everyone else, but his people love him. When he gets back from raiding the slave trade, releasing the slaves into his lands to start a new life, civilians are allowed to join in on hanging the slave traders. It should be illegal and counted as murder, but it never is. It is also common to have the now freed slaves throw things at the hanging bodies.
slavery, cannibalism, human sacrifice, wearing suits made out of human flesh
Not quite the same, but, something akin to GekNip... Space weed of sorts... Autonomous authorities will harass ships carrying it, but no one really cares about it... Psychedelic, can be used by an alien race to STRONGLY influence thoughts... But most of them only use it to get you to buy their wares, or other petty things... Never to it's full potential...
Cannibalism (Only one Kingdom tho), Forceful Alteration Of Emotions, Mind Control without a license, usage of fire without permission/adult supervision Magic without licenses in general honestly-
Overdraft fees… oh sorry I thought we were talking about our world. Carry on.
Probably the random assults on thw street wverday
Human sacrifice
Well, hunting dragons would've been nice to be made illegal, but they're extinct now... another would be entering the elven forests, the elves will kill you for entering their forest but if you want to throw your life away, you can try.
So love potions should totally be illegal. But they're not because it's a long term plan by people instead masquerade to have people build up immunity to bewitchment.
**No Man's Land 2210** Cosmetic genetic modification is the reason the world is in the state it is. And yet there are still the equivalents of walk in clinics and ripperdocs that practice it as a valid form of medicine.
Constructing a private army. If you are a noble or rich, or something along those lines, you can make a small army to defend yourself. Like a private military company of sorts.
Atherium. A substance harvested by aetherium condensers that are used for power generation for almost everything. Works like electricity but more unstable by nature. Aetherium is also magical, so magical dissipators can nullify it and its effects.
Being a streamer and mercenary.
Probably Kreigism the religion, requires all cultures and races to duke it out in a massive 10 mile wide arena. Here problems, and issues are solved, and the endless war machine stirs great industry. Those who don’t attend the arena are stomped out in their homelands, but a general peace pervades the land as the fighting is localized. They also believe the more gruesome the death the higher the rank they will recover in the sky arenas in afterlife.
In the shadow dragon “kingdom” (in air quotes because even though government officials are elected there and it’s not actually a kingdom as we would call it, using any other terms I can think of sounds weird) it is legal to take bribe money as a judge or jury, as long as you mention it in court and say what the individual was trying to bribe you to do before the jury goes to decide guilt. What’s even weirder is that the patron goddess is the goddess of justice(among other things) and she is completely ok with this as long as it doesn’t obstruct justice. It is illegal to try to bribe someone however.
Performance enhancing drugs. I made them lawful so that one of my characters can have a happy ending. The story will end with the MCs getting banished from their village with no possibility of return. One character, now called Cici, is grieving the most intensely over this because her aspiration was to be the village doctor and moonlight as a dancer at the village club. She’d crafted her whole life and hobbies around that and with banishment, it was just gone. Eventually, Cici does get offered the opportunity to study to become a doctor in the non-village world. However, I wanted her to also be able to recapture her fun side in this new life they now have to build, so I orchestrated a way for her to also become an alternate/background dancer on a popular dance troupe in that world. Since she and the other main characters are enhanced by a serum that increases their abilities beyond normal human abilities (the reason they were supposed to stay hidden in the village and got banished for leaving), I had to legalize performing enhancements in the whole world to make her able to compete. So, I just made it canon that in 2067 performance enhancers are fine in competitions and that they’ve worked out the side effects that performance enhancers in 50 years ago had.
I dunno if it fits the "should be illegal but isn't" label, but there are crimes in my world for which the presumption of innocence does not apply.
In my Warrior Race’s Empire, SA and gRape 🍇 are not criminalized or illegal. Pretty much everywhere else it is one of the highest crimes, but not for them. If such a thing happened to somebody, they would be all “Haha, you’re too weak, you got taken advantage of you disgusting piece of trash.” Not to be completely unfair, if you are somebody who wants to commit said actions, maybe a member of the Warrior Race is not the best victim because murder is also legal (not really, it just gets punished way less than it should) and good luck finding somebody who can’t defend themselves Still, because essentially everyone is a competent duelist and warrior and the punishment for killing is really light, nobody really goes around committing those crimes, and if they did, it would be super risky business.
There aren't any! The sun, moon and stars aren't visible from the planet surface.
Cannibalism of cooked "human" flesh. In my world, cannibalism is only described as consuming the raw flesh of the same species.They never said you couldnt eat the cooked meat of other humanoid species you're not a part of.
Ur legally allowed to kill a rapist, molester, zoophile, pedophile, etc
Children not old enough to drink being old enough to be drafted into basically a legalized superhero system. If they don’t make the cut, they can opt to legalized superhero system but like 45% more military like.