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What do your customs officers/border guards ban?

Postby Vallermoore » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:50 pm

What is considered contraband at our borders and confiscated are...

Tribbles and Parasprites, because of the destruction both creatures can do to our ecosystem because they reproduce so quickly.
A few very dangerous/addictive drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and crystal meth
Nuclear, biological and chemical WMDs
Pepper spray, considered a vile weapon and a cop-out. We have very liberal weapons laws, but they don't stretch to allowing that, and even our police and prison staff can't have it.
Those Michael Bay Transformers vids/DVDs, considered a slur to Decepticons.
Police batons (only police officers and prison officers can have those.)

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Postby Provincias Unidas Sudamericanas » Sat Dec 10, 2016 6:04 pm

  • Alcohol
  • Drugs
  • Guns
  • Foreign plants or animals
  • Literature of banned groups
  • Flags or propaganda of Allied nations
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Postby Nortainland » Sat Dec 10, 2016 7:32 pm

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The Border Guard

It is prohibited to bring into Great Nortend a large number of items without a permit, including but not only:
    Firearms
    Illegal drugs and substances
    Electronic goods
    Raw foods
    Any item harbouring any invasive disease, fungus or organism
    Mohammadan, Scientologist, or Buddhist religious items
    Obscene publications
    Seditious publications

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Postby Gandoor » Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:27 pm

- Firearms and ammunition
- Forbidden/controlled substances
- Medicinal drugs (unless one has a signed prescription from their doctor that one can present to a customs officer)
- Endangered/protected/forbidden animal species
- Obscene publications (any publications that depict any of the followings: child pornography, animal abuse, beastiality, and necrophilia)
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Postby Vaniri » Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:40 pm

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All Un-Registered and Illegal by Items are seized if it is legal in the home country of the person['s] it will be given back on the trip home but if it is illegal in both Vaniri and their home country the person will be sent back home for a trial and the illegal item['s] will be destroyed.

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Postby Chinese Peoples » Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:52 pm

Nothing extravagant. Basically, we allow anything and everything into our borders, but we might put a big import duty on it. :p
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Postby Andulia » Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:00 pm

Andulia allows a wide range of items, but there are obviously limits. Dangerous substances (firearms, explosives, toxic chemicals) can only be imported by authorized state agencies, while invasive plant and animal species are banned, and regulations on drugs and alcohol are rather lax. There are restrictions on the types of printed material that may be brought in; religious pamphlets, holy texts, and literature relating to reactionary ideologies (collectively referred to as anti-social information, or ansoc) can be carried across the border, but they have to be registered with customs, and after a certain amount of ansoc material has been brought in during a year, officials will prohibit its importation until the beginning of the next year. This way there is a yearly quota on all ansoc products. In one notable instance, which caused a great deal of international controversy, Andulian Customs Bureau officials confiscated, shredded, and recycled 340,000 Bibles that were being brought in aboard a container ship by a Christian missionary group.

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Postby Valentine Z » Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:07 pm

Almost everything can be brought in, minus Weapons of Mass Destruction (Nuclear, Chemical or Biological). Endangered wildlife is encouraged to bring in (as long as you don't sell it to the black market), so that we can clone it in our labs, then we will give back the original creature or plant back to you for your personal use.
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Postby Benign Retrofuturists » Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:57 pm

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Postby Vault 93 » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:50 pm

Wastelanders are not permitted to bring in narcotics, such as jet, buffout, physco, or Med-X, unless given approval by the Overseer. Additionally, all weapons are confiscated when entering, however are returned on your way out.
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Postby Xuskeuclite » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:56 pm

Well like if you mean border guards as in the people who investigate the immigrants it would be immigrants, weapons, foreign stuff, drugs (even wine), guards, diseases, animals, and bugs because I don't want the country having a giant spider infestation.

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Postby Cuban Syria » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:15 am

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Postby Skyhooked » Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:43 am

Nothing. We don't even have customs. But there are border patrols, which hunt down slavers.
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Postby Arachaea » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:36 pm

-Harmful substances (hard drugs; poisons; etc)
-Weapons
-Endangered species
-Obscene material
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Postby Tulov » Tue Dec 13, 2016 5:16 pm

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  • Poisons, Chemical Weapons, etc.
  • Raw foods and beverages
  • Plant life, exotic animals, endangered animals and similar.
  • Electronic Goods
  • Anything that could be harboring a dangerous bacteria
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Postby Banten Sultanate » Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:27 pm

Custom officers and border guards of Banten Sultanate automatically ban restricted armaments, hard drugs, and endangered animals.
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Postby The United Confederation of Empires » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:07 am

Depends on the empire. For the "First 13" Sector, the customs officers ban "universal pheronemones" (narcotics which affect all lifeforms), superviruses (biological or digital), and any dangerous weaponry. Some Islam-predominant sectors ban obscene material. For some semi-anarchic sectors, they don't even have customs officers.
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Postby Toin » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:57 am

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Banned and restricted goods
  • Drugs. (all are illegal except for medicinal purposes. Drugs for medicinal purposes require a prescription document to be brought in.)
  • Offensive weapons, such as knives.
  • Self-defense sprays, like pepper spray.
  • Endangered animal and plant species
  • Rough diamonds
  • Indecent and obscene materials
  • Personal imports of meat and dairy products
  • Live birds and hatching eggs
  • Feathers
  • Raw pet foods containing poultry products
  • Eggs, yolks and egg whites

Some food and plant products are also restricted if they:
  • Aren't free from pests and diseases
  • Aren't for your own use
  • Contain poultry
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Postby Valgora » Fri Jan 06, 2017 3:31 pm

Items Banned from Entering Valgora:

- WMDs
- Firearms and ammunition (these aren't banned, they're just confiscated until the weapons are registered)
- Food must be checked and approved
- Animals must be checked and approved
- Self-defense spray is confiscated until registered
- Chemicals must be approved
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