Child policy in your nation

[Kaifunasia]

Does your nation have a policy towards families and children? In Kaifunasia we have a two-child policy, where the government encourages newly wed couples to have two children within a short gap of each other. This is to prevent an ageing population which could occur as a result of a low birth rate.


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[Vista Major]

We have no such laws. There is no encouragement nor punishment for the amount of kids per family. Although, if there is child neglect, serious charges are to be had.

[The Peoples East Africa]

The Peoples East Africa's policy is as follows:
All first born children are slaughtered to appease The High Blood Gods. Couples are required to have at least 8 children. All those who are unable to produce children, are relocated to alternate labour camps, where they can make up for that.

[Kazarogkai]

A couple of different laws:

-If one lays their hand(s) upon a ward, even if it is yours, well cut off your hand. If you do it again we will cut off the other. If you do it a third time well exile you.

-A child may lay with a child and an adult may lay with an adult, but an adult may never lay with a child at risk of exile. Basically anyone who is 13 and up can concept so long as the person they are consenting to is below the age of 15. Anyone who is 16 years and up who lays with anyone below that age will be exiled.

[Kazarogkai]

The Peoples East Africa's policy is as follows:
All first born children are slaughtered to appease The High Blood Gods. Couples are required to have at least 8 children. All those who are unable to produce children, are relocated to alternate labour camps, where they can make up for that.

Seems more useful to put them in the military when things are a little tight, but that is just me.

[Republic of Augusta]

If a child under the age of 20 goes to prison, the parents must go to prison with them.

[Yedmnrutika Gavr]

Does your nation have a policy towards families and children? In Kaifunasia we have a two-child policy, where the government encourages newly wed couples to have two children within a short gap of each other. This is to prevent an ageing population which could occur as a result of a low birth rate.


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most in our country understand that it is irresponsible, on multiple levels, to have 17 children. the government promotes a 1:1 policy and gives a monetary incentive to all who follow this example of 2 children per couple. there is no penalty for the opposite but we work to educate the public about the benefits of a stable population.

[Auzkhia]

There is not any, reproduction is totally unregulated by the state, despite the few calls for parent licenses.

In the past, there were mother medals, given to the mothers of large families to encourage a larger population; this was discontinued in 1950.

[New Chelel]

Does your nation have a policy towards families and children? In Kaifunasia we have a two-child policy, where the government encourages newly wed couples to have two children within a short gap of each other. This is to prevent an ageing population which could occur as a result of a low birth rate.

In New Chelel, reproduction is considered an entirely personal matter and it would be taboo to attempt to regulate it. However, fertile females are often nonetheless encouraged to mate often and have many children, particularly among drowolath, drowussu, and kotorcs, since infertility is common and the infant mortality rate is often over 50%.

[Gandoor]

There is no such thing as policies regarding how many children you can have in Gandoor.

[Ammerinia]

Biological reproduction is completely free of state-regulations. However, the Imperial Government encourages most couples with the intent of biologically reproducing to have at least two children most of the time.

Genetic reproduction (i.e. the practice of artificially "creating" human children), which is much more common with same-sex, interspecies, or sterile couples, is indeed regulated. The regulations include not having more than 5 artificially grown children within a 5 year time-frame, no hybrid species, and no preset genetic traits which endanger the community can be chosen. What you'd expect from people whom play god on a large scale, really.

[Berke Islands]

No laws currently exist within the Berke Islands, although there's a strong push back against "race mixing"

[Southern Verusia]

No such law exists currently, but, Inter-racial marriage is illegal, the Government is currently over looking the law and looking to end it.

[Daria City]

Adoption from foreign nations is more in pro than having too many of their own, because its a longer hard process and we try to limit our citizens from overpopulating our little (well big) city nation.

[A Colony Of Canadas]

No laws against having as much children as you want. However, children share the same penalties if they commit a crime as adults do.

[Magia]

Magia uses a birth ration system to keep its population constant after factoring immigration and other areas of population growth. Each person may only have one birth ration in their lifetime. In effect, this means that Magia has a 'two-child policy'. The ration can be claimed after the ration holder or parents have completed parenting classes and proven they will be able to support a child.

Births that occur without a ration are indeed against the law, and there are many resolution options. The first is abortion, which can be provided confidentially and for free at any point prior to birth upon the mother's consent. The child may also be a candidate for adoption, although this involves a fine being levied on the one without a ration. Finally, the Magian government has granted amnesty in certain situations -- the most common being a 'statue of limitations' removing the fine penalty on past births that occurred for whatever reason without a ration.

Amnesty reforms are promoted by many groups in Magia who claim that the current policy encourages too many parents who have births without rations to give birth outside of the medical system, and thus at greater risk. While the specific views of these groups vary, they generally favour reducing 'punishments' (mainly fines) for unrationed births and simply reducing the amount of rations issued to factor in unrationed births.

The provision of birth control and contraception enjoys wide support politically. The universal, state-run health system provides these free at time of use to all people as confidentially as possible to guarantee their best use. Sexual education, mandatory in secondary education, emphasises birth control and comprehensive sexual education to complement this policy.

[CMB Universal Union]

Everyone is vat-grown here and suppression fields ensure zero biological reproduction.

[Solitan]

There are no laws regarding how many children a couple in Solitan may have. However to prevent over-population couples are encouraged to have willingly no more than three children. Of course, quadruplets and above are exceptions due to how they cannot be planned for.

[Novus Niciae]

There are no laws about how many children a person can have , but there is a strong social expectation that children will be looked after and that the parent has the resources necessary to achieve this.

[Aikoland]

We have no laws regarding how many children you may have. We do, however, have strict laws in regards to care for children and we have little to no tolerance for any form of abuse towards a child.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

There are no child or family policies of any kind in the traditional sense, and to realize why, you must first understand what Sidhae really are and how they breed.

Every Sidh is a cyborg - a genetically-enhanced cyber-augmented human. One can either be born a Sidh, or become one through conversion. The first case means one is grown from the genetic material of other Sidhae in a type of bio-factory called progenitory, where one also undergoes surgical augmentation and other forms of enhancement. As the young Sidh grows, he or she is "coded" or "imprinted" - educated by neuro-interactive simulations hooked up straight to one's brain. Immature Sidhae effectively live in a Matrix-like virtual reality called Dreamtime. When the young Sidhae have reached maturity, they are awakened and their memories of Dreamtime partly wiped to help them better integrate in the real world. They are kept around in the progenitory for a few weeks afterwards for various tests, most importantly, interest and aptitude tests that will determine the spectrum of professions best suited to an individual, helping the young Sidhae with their career choice. Sidhae are bred in dozens of different phenotypes, each being suited to a particular set of jobs, but customarily the youngsters are allowed to choose their role in society by themselves (most willingly choosing the jobs they were bred for anyway). That being said, there is no rule against a warrior trying the path of an artist, or a hulking construction worker aspiring to become a fighter pilot, though the young are advised to pick roles more suited to their phenotype for practical reasons.

Those who convert and become Sidhae are adult humans, defectors from the Federation and other human nations, or residents of the Imperium's ghettos who have realized the benefits of Sidh lifestyle and are willing to turn their backs and renounce their old ways of superstition and ignorance. After testing to determine whether these volunteers are completely healthy and compatible with standard Sidh augmentations, they are taken to the conversion branch of the local progenitory, and subjected to a grueling several-month-long conversion process, enduring dozens of unpleasant augmentation therapies and painful surgeries. The worst, however, is the mental reconditioning, which effectively entails a partial memory wipe coupled with an aversion conditioning against everything that might tempt the convert to retake his old human allegiances. Family, religion, ethnicity, social class, political beliefs - all that must go and be replaced with the single word "Sidh". The process is said to be so agonizing, not so much physically as mentally, that many aspiring converts die or go insane. These failures are subject to the unenviable fate of becoming cybs or cyber-serfs - mindless constructs of metal and flesh used as expendable berserk shock troopers or lobotomized slave labourers. The successful converts leave the progenitory already as true Sidhae, in many ways even more zealous about their new identity than born Sidhae.

All reproduction in the Imperium is overseen by the state Eugenics Program, which operates the entire network of progenitories. The goal of the Eugenics Program is to selection and breed faster, stronger, healthier and smarter Sidhae, to devise augmentations for them, to eliminate undesirable traits from the Sidh genepool, and most importantly, to make sure the Imperium gets as many new soldiers, workers and scientists when and where necessary. Unsanctioned reproduction is illegal, and by all practical means also impossible - while Sidh females are technically capable of bearing their own young, the invasive procedures for ova extraction for progenitory use have left nearly all of them incapable of conceiving naturally. While Sidh men can sire offspring with unaugmented human women, this is strictly forbidden, and any such pregnancies are required to be terminated immediately - both because such newborns often tend to be horribly deformed due to incompatible genetic differences between their parents, and because the existence of healthy naturally-born halflings challenges the state control over reproduction in the Imperium and contaminates the genepool with products of inferior quality to true Sidhae.

While the methods of their production are highly-sophisticated, the fundamental underlying principle of their reproduction is still the same - combination of male and female gametes. Each Sidh is subject to gamete extraction on his or her mandatory monthly health checkup to ensure the Eugenics Program is never short of raw materials. After screening, this genetic material is then combined with a suitable match, depending on what the progenitors intend to breed. The fertilized ova, often numbering several hundred from every match, are then implanted into growth vats and left to grow in an accelerated-growth environment. The growing embryos are constantly examined and discarded at the slightest sign of flaw. Because of this rigorous screening, only about 20-40 Sidhae from the original batch of several hundred survive to maturity and awakening, but because of this strict quality control, hereditary defects, disease and deformity is all but unknown in Sidh society. This breeding technique also has the advantage of rapidly populating newly-settled worlds - with the use of growth acceleration, progenitors can grow a new generation of Sidhae in roughly 8 years to adult size, each and every one of them entering the world as a fully capable adult ready to be put to work almost immediately. Where a single human couple can produce 20 children at most during their reproductive age, Sidhae can become gene-parents of hundreds of new Sidhae in a single year - and that not accounting for the fact that Sidh lifespans are much greater than human. Furthermore, this form of breeding will produce the exact amount of people at the exacting time and place, making sure the labour demand is always met while avoiding overpopulation and the myriad of problems that come with it.

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For this reason, child/family policies are unnecessary in the Imperium. Many outsiders have remarked on the striking absence of children or apparent families in Sidh society.

Sidhae themselves take great pride in being the products of science and engineering rather than random genetic combination at the mercy of nature, the artificial reproduction that was once adopted as a practical necessity now being an essential part of their ethnic and cultural identity. They regard the naturally-born as inferior (for a number of demonstrable reasons), derisively referring to them as "cunt-borns".

[Minoa]

Minoa has no such laws restricting how many children a mother can have.

[Ingensterra]

There are no policies restricting how many children can be had by anybody. Also, no restrictions on races or genders. Only restrictions that would be applicable are against those who have been involved with child abuse. Even then, that person can still HAVE them. They'll just be taken out of custody.

[Melvonia]

Oh goodness, no! We understand enough about the birds and the bees to know that any attempts at governmental regulation of human reproductive processes would either be hopelessly ineffective or require state intrusion into private and family life on a monumental scale. As most things in Melvonia are hopelessly ineffective anyway, we have taken what we believe to be the wiser course of not bothering with it (see also: Melvonian government policy on pretty much everything else). How on earth a nation that struggles with the legal and administrative complexity of a municipal car-park would go about imposing its own agenda on the most natural and instinctual of human behaviours, even if it wanted to, is a question which in itself is enough to send the entire Cabinet Council reaching for their special gilded 50-foot Non-Touching Pole of Office.

[Hao Tzen]

The number of children people make is none of our business. However,mistreating a child is punished by law