What is your nation's weirdest law?

[San Llera]

The color red is banned in San Llera.

[The Northern Kingdoms]

Law on "Stolen Valour", which requires anyone dressing up as soldiers with medals to serve the army to prove their worth. It is currently on hold as it is being revised to cover only the military, where personnel accused of wearing unearned medals are forced to go to the front lines. People are still unaware of this law as a result, as it has not been implemented it, as a result of a state of revision.

[Crumb-Cashew]

Onions or onion-containing foods MUST be served at EVERY RESTAURANT in Crumb-Cashew, including foreign cuisine- which is incredibly rare in the country. The punishment for a non-onion-containing restaurant is a decent fine in Cotturas.

For this reason, many restaurants have simple, onion-selling market stalls operating out of the back of the building.

[Otulia]

In Otulia, the weirdest law is the Deceased Suffrage Clause of the Voting Rights Act of 2014:

"...In all cases, where an eligible, voting member of the public has died, but been resurrected, by forms of necromancy legitimate, and duly noted as having been resurrected, wherein they deceased shall have met all voter qualifications after January 1st, 1960, they shall be permitted, if kept resurrected permanently, to vote, as would any other sapient, in all elections they are entitled to vote and cast a ballot in."

In essence, the clause allows dead sapients, if they were alive and could vote in 1960, to vote, provided they return from the afterlife permanently. The clause, added because lawmakers had been harassed by haunting spirits, resulted in a 20% increase in voter registration in 2015, when it went into effect, and a further 18% increase the following year. Polls, forecasts, and election results show that no major political changes have resulted from allowing the resurrected to vote.

[Remulia]

every year, every inhabitant of the empire should leave a banknote of 50 lyras outside his home ... and pick it sixty minutes later.

[The Blackreach virus]

the Banning of sarcasm
"The pain of this practice upon our nation has gone on long enough as of this moment all sarcastic comments are banned from blackreach"

[Transyl]

Once a month, every man above the age of 40 must go into an arena and fight to the death until only one is left. Then that man is made immortal, that's how everyone in Transyl earns their immortality, is by fighting for it....Yes, it's a law. If you do not participate, your family will be killed and you will be sent to a torture chamber for the rest of your life.

[YellowApple]

Tobacco consumption was considered to be a felony eligible for capital punishment until very recently; possession and sale were each considered to be non-capital-punishment-eligible felonies punishable by lengthy (but not lifelong) prison sentences. This has been significantly relaxed recently, now that isolated filtration systems have been implemented by "smoking-friendly" homes and businesses.

The color red is banned in San Llera.

We're amused by the fact that your flag contains the colors (in hexadecimal notation) #FFC61E and #FFFFFF, both of which contain the maximum quantity of red possible in a 24-bit-encoded color.

[Lyras]

Being outside one's quarters without a firearm within arm's reach is illegal, and punishments vary depending on number of times charged with the offence, and whether in a combat zone or otherwise.

[Wanchou]

Our weirdest law would be the consumption ban on soft drinks for children under the age of 6. What makes it weird is not the idea but how strictly implemented it is and compulsory but for a very good cause, though. Wans have this recent trend of moderation for children in this matter.

[Zhouran]

As part of the "One Motherland, One Military" policy, which was created on September 14, 1956, those who are from a special autonomous region are barred from joining elite or strategic positions (such as the Strategic Weapons Command, ZPA Air Force, ZPA Navy, and the Public Security Corps). It is unknown why this policy was created, but it is said that this was due paranoia, as well racism, from Zhouranese conservative nationalists and hardliners.

Positions that are prohibited for SAR-born individuals - Strategic Weapons Command - - ZPA Air Force - - ZPA Navy - - Public Security Corps -

Also, those who are from a SAR are not allowed to hold a commissioned officer rank. Not only that, personnel who are from a SAR are not allowed to be stationed in the Zhouranese archipelago, and as a result, they can only be stationed in either a special autonomous region or a foreign military base. Surprisingly, this policy also forbids SAR-born individuals from joining the National Patriotic Guards, which is not part of the Zhouranese People's Army but is under the control of the People's Defense Council. Instead, there is a militia for those who were born from a SAR, known as the National Foreign Guards. Like the NPG, the NFG is not part of the Zhouranese People's Army but is under the control of the People's Defense Council.

In conclusion, anyone who is from a SAR can only join as a soldier in the Zhouranese People's Army Ground Force, or alternatively, they can join the National Foreign Guards. Back in the Zhouranese archipelago, there has been a debate on whether to remove the policy or not. The liberals want to remove it, as they see the policy as a form of racism and a symbol of Zhouran's colonization of the Philippines, while conservative nationalists and hardliners want to keep the policy.

Although foreigners would consider this policy and law to be racist, to the average politically-apathetic citizens of the People's Republic of Zhouran, they find it to be odd.

[Tigeria]

In Tigeria, you can't skip down a crowded sidewalk.

[San Llera]

The color red is banned in San Llera.

We're amused by the fact that your flag contains the colors (in hexadecimal notation) #FFC61E and #FFFFFF, both of which contain the maximum quantity of red possible in a 24-bit-encoded color.

The concept of the color of red is very loosely defined in San Llera, but a Supreme Court ruling cited that a red sweatshirt "just kinda looked red."

[Yuketobaniac]

it is illegal to dress up as a zombie or a ghost even on Halloween.

[Dubelicus]

All sex is to be monitored by the Supreme Leader via video feed.

[Gandoor]

It is illegal to protest within 50 feet of the Gandoorese monarch or the royal family.

We haven't had a royal family since 1902 and we switched to the metric system in the 1950's. It's only still a law because the current government is considered the legal successor of the former Nzardom of Gandoor and, as such, all existing laws remained in place until they were repealed and it was just never repealed.

[Yuketobaniac]

All sex is to be monitored by the Supreme Leader via video feed.

[Vallermoore]

We like do think we don't have that many strange laws and when we do there is at least a good reason behind a law.

It is illegal to get a foal drunk, in case it is a sapient pony.
The Michael Bay Transformers film is banned, but that is because we don't want a giant war robot invasion.
A person who slanders and cannot pay the fine can be have their mouth taped for a certain number of days or weeks except at meal times and when going to bed as an alternative to prison time, as prison often makes someone worse rather then better.
A male person or tomboy girl can be punished by being made to look and sound like a passable girly girl as an alternative to prison time, as prison often makes someone worse rather then better.
. It's rarely used as a punishment now though as girly girls protested en masse.
A law that was thankfully cancelled 155 years ago made it illegal to teach black people to read, as back then most blacks in Vallermoore were plantation slaves.
Someone on Death Row with 24 hours or less before execution can dress in their best clothes instead of prison uniform, so they can go like that into the afterlife if one exists.
Swords, guns up to AK47s, bowie knives and most weapons can be open carried outside towns and cities and carried concealed in most other places, but pepper spray, Tasers, and police batons are for police and presidential bodyguards only.

[Nueva Uruguay]

Police sirens must have a "dog whistle" mode, to get stray dogs out of the way of the police vehicle.

[True Chinese Federation]

It is possible for cultural material not produced by The Master Culture to be legal.

[Victorious Decepticons]

- There is no income tax, but one must pay a 10% tax on any goods that are obtained by raiding. For the purpose of the law, "raiding" means any sort of activity that would be considered illicit within the jurisdiction it took place. In practice, however, it is only truly feasible to enforce the tax on items that were literally raided - that is, taken by force, Viking style - because those items typically need to be refined or otherwise processed before they are useful. This tax is, appropriately, referred to as the Raid Tax.

- Goods obtained via means that are considered legal in all jurisdictions are tax-free, but you must have proof of legitimacy if you want to sell raw resources to a refinery or foundry without paying the Raid Tax. The tax collector will usually call whatever planet your goods came from and confirm that the place was not raided since papers are too forgeable to be considered proof on their own.

- It is illegal to wear a silly paint job. The silliness level is calculated by watching the reactions of people as you walk down the street.

[Aeuria]

It's illegal to pee standing up with the seat of the toilet down. It's also illegal to leave the seat up when you're done. Citizens found doing this are fined 1,000 denarii and receive a 1 month prison sentence.

[Roderia]

It is illegal to display or possess another nation's flag in Roderia, the only exceptions are for embassies, joint military operations, or other diplomatic situations.

[Zhouran]

All sex is to be monitored by the Supreme Leader via video feed.

Kinky 1984 Orwellian Dictatorship.

[The Northern Kingdoms]

All newborn human babies, visiting human tourists and human immigrants has to be injected with a special serum. This serum prevents incubisation and monsterization, and, when having babies with a mamono, increases the chance that the baby is a human (according to research, 44% human boy, 28% human girl, 28% mamono).

Technically, this law requires ALL human citizens to be injected with the serum, until all citizens were indeed injected, then the law, while unchanged, practically covered only newborn human babies and human visitors to the Northern Kingdoms.

Because of this, the human-mamono ratio remains regulated.