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Merni
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Founded: May 03, 2016
Democratic Socialists

Postby Merni » Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:33 am

    What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: For motorcycles/scooters/other 2- and 3-wheeled vehicles only: 15 for a learners' license and 16½ for a regular license. For a general license: 16 for a learners' license and 18 for a regular license. For specialty and restricted vehicles: 21 years.
  • Vote in elections: 17½
  • Get married: 18
  • Join the military: 16, but can only serve in frontline combat positions after 17.
  • Age of consent: 18
  • Buy/drink alcohol: In private homes, with the informed consent and supervision of the parents and the registered residents of that house, from 7. For buying alcohol and drinking in other places, 21.
  • Buy/use marijuana: Illegal except for medical purpose when prescribed by an authorised doctor.
  • Buy/use any other drugs: Mostly illegal, for those that aren't, 21.
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: Technically there is no limitation on the age to become Emperor, but in practice since 1800 the youngest has been 27. To become an MP and thence a Chancellor (minister), 30.
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Westerei
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Founded: Mar 10, 2018
Ex-Nation

Postby Westerei » Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:42 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 18
  • Vote in elections: 20
  • Get married: 20
  • Join the military: 20/whenever you complete high school
  • Age of consent: 16
  • Buy/drink alcohol: No restriction
  • Buy/use marijuana: N/A
  • Buy/use any other drugs: N/A
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 20
  • Become leader of your country: When the last leader can no longer serve

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Yanasra
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Posts: 29
Founded: Jan 30, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Yanasra » Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:46 pm

We don't use ages, we scan the brains of our citizens to determine their maturity

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New Transeurasia
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Posts: 1203
Founded: Dec 22, 2016
Left-Leaning College State

Postby New Transeurasia » Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:57 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 12-19, depending on the vehicle
  • Vote in elections: 15
  • Get married: 15
  • Join the military: 17
  • Age of consent: 15
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 15
  • Buy/use marijuana: 15
  • Buy/use any other drugs: 15
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 15
  • Become leader of your country: 25
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The Isle of Beithe
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Founded: Sep 12, 2018
Ex-Nation

Postby The Isle of Beithe » Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:34 am

  • Get a driver's license: 16
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 16
  • Join the military: 18, 17 with parental consent
  • Age of consent: 16
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 16 for beer, 18 for wine and hard liquor
  • Buy/use marijuana: 18
  • Buy/use any other drugs: 18
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: Not explicitly defined, but you would need to be 28 to meet all the requirements
Last edited by The Isle of Beithe on Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Hanska
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Posts: 8
Founded: Sep 09, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Hanska » Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:23 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 17
  • Vote in elections: 17
  • Get married: 20
  • Join the military: 17
  • Age of consent: 18
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 30
  • Buy/use marijuana: ban
  • Buy/use any other drugs: ban
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 17
  • Become leader of your country: 35

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The Onigiri Enclave
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Posts: 86
Founded: Feb 18, 2016
Left-wing Utopia

Postby The Onigiri Enclave » Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:10 am

In The Onigiri Enclave, the minimum legal age to do the below is:
  • Get a driver's license:
    For horses/cows/llamas/camels/elephants/other ridden animals, and carriages - 7
    For most boats and bobsleds - 10
    For single/double engine turboprop planes - 11
    For helicopters - 12
    For large boats, including yachts and cargo ships - 13
    For most jet engine aircraft - 15
    For Zamboni - 16
    For fighter jets and bombers - 17
    For powered armor and mobile suits - 22
    Automobiles in The Onigiri Enclave are banned for environmental reasons
  • Vote in elections:
    All Onigiri citizens may legally vote starting from the age of 13.
  • Get married:
    Onigiri citizens may get married at 19.
  • Join the military:
    At large, you must be at least 22 to join the military. However, this rules doesn't necessarily apply for the division known as the "Seven Samurai," in that one simply cannot "join" the Seven Samurai. They must be "chosen" by the AI of a particular mecha as someone they find compatible, and sometimes these picks defy typical social norms regarding military service, such as age or even citizenship. Because of how one get into the Seven Samurai, the head of the Seven Samurai, and by default, the military head of the entire Onigiri military (that only answers to the Defense Czar, the civilian Commander-in-Chief of the military) is an 8 year old Canadian girl.
  • Age of consent:
    The age of consent in The Onigiri Enclave is 20.
  • Buy/drink alcohol:
    The minimum legal age to buy alcohol is 22.
  • Buy/use marijuana:
    As so long as it is not in a form of a joint or blunt (i.e. in a smokable form not ingested via bong), one may consume marijuana (and all other forms of cannabis-based resources) as soon as they are born.
  • Buy/use any other drugs:
    All drugs possessing a psychedelic and/or hallucinogenic property, such as LSD, peyote, psilocybin, PCP, ketamine, etc. are permitted to be consumed as soon as one is born. However, all use and possession of tobacco, heroin, crack cocaine, foreign-made methamphetamine and other such dangerous narcotic street drugs in the same vein as those listed are expressly prohibited for health reasons, as is abuse of prescription opioids, any infraction past the first is punishable by having a cocktail of molten lead & bleach injected straight into the veins.
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws:
    One is considered an adult by Onigiri law at age 22.
  • Become leader of your country:
    Anyone can be elected El Presidente, the leader of our nation, once they reach the age of 13. However, after that, El Presidente can then nominate anyone of any age to chair an Executive Office, an the public at large, as the nation's de facto legislative body, can vote to confirm them into office. In the extremely rare instances where a brilliant young individual does end up heading an Executive Office (as was the case 5 years ago when Yujimei Natsume was made the Defense Czar - she was 8 years old at the time), in the event something happens to El Presidente, and succession rules go into effect, the age of the Executive filling the role of El Presidente goes out the window, allowing for someone under the age of 13 to fill the vacancy.
Last edited by The Onigiri Enclave on Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Aurevbush
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Posts: 420
Founded: Apr 06, 2016
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Aurevbush » Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:09 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 16
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 22
  • Join the military: 18 (where men are conscripted for 24 months and eligible women are conscripted for 18 mths)
  • Age of consent: 16
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 19
  • Buy/use marijuana: 19
  • Buy/use any other drugs: banned
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18, unless you are proven medically incapable of living independently at the time
  • Become leader of your country: 30, however a growing movement in Congress has been made to raise it to 35.
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Rotar
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Posts: 16
Founded: Dec 23, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Rotar » Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:25 pm

What is the minimum legal age to:
Get a driver's license: 15 1/2
Vote in elections: 16
Get married: 16
Join the military: 12, but can only serve in frontline combat positions at 16
Age of consent: 14
Buy/drink alcohol: to buy alcohol a person must be at least 16, but there is no age requirement to be able to drink alcohol
Buy/use marijuana: Marijuana is legal for all Rotari citizens from age 14 and over
Buy/use any other drugs: Opium is available to all citizens age 18 and over, all psychedelics are available for citizens age 20 and over
Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: legally a male can get emancipated from his family at the age of 15, but a woman has to wait until the age of 22
Become leader of your country: there is no explicit age minimum to become leader of the country, but the current and only legal party in Rotar, the People's Party for Rotari Advancement, has a minimum age to be a recognised member of 25, so the minimum age is de facto 25

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Atlantrio
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Posts: 14
Founded: Mar 30, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Atlantrio » Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:51 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 15
  • Vote in elections: We do not have elections.
  • Get married: 13
  • Join the military: 14
  • Age of consent: 13
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 20
  • Buy/use marijuana: Drugs are illegal.
  • Buy/use any other drugs: DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL.
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 13
  • Become leader of your country: 13

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Democratic Republic of Eiria
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Posts: 218
Founded: May 07, 2018
Liberal Democratic Socialists

Postby Democratic Republic of Eiria » Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:18 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 15, if aced test. 16 if not.
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 18
  • Join the military: 21
  • Age of consent: 18
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 21
  • Buy/use marijuana: With permit and can prove themselves not dependent, 25
  • Buy/use any other drugs: Prescription, 18. Narcotics, never.
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: 18
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Kings Canyon
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Posts: 11
Founded: Apr 14, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Kings Canyon » Sun Apr 14, 2019 1:54 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 16
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 18
  • Join the military: 18
  • Age of consent: 16
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 16 (parental supervision), 18 (general)
  • Buy/use marijuana: 21
  • Buy/use any other drugs: 21
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: 18

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Shiruku
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Posts: 125
Founded: Mar 06, 2018
Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Shiruku » Mon Apr 15, 2019 3:58 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 16
  • Vote in elections: 16
  • Get married: 16
  • Join the military: N/A (No military)
  • Age of consent: 15
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 18
  • Buy/use marijuana: 16
  • Buy/use any other drugs: N/A
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 16
  • Become leader of your country: 25
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Elymai
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Posts: 25
Founded: Mar 22, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Elymai » Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:09 am

  • Get a driver's license:
      16 for a motorcycle license, 18 for a passenger car license
  • Vote in elections:
      21 for individuals not in the military; 17 for individuals in the military
  • Get married:
      Generally 18; individuals can marry at 15 with both parental and judicial consent
  • Join the military:
      17
  • Age of consent:
      15
  • Buy/drink alcohol:
      18
  • Buy/use marijuana:
      N/A; cannabis is not legal in Elam
  • Buy/use any other drugs:
      18 (tobacco)
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws:
      16
  • Become leader of your country:
      The Emir must have a regent if under the age of 16; 25 to become Prime Minister (as this is the minimum age to sit on the parliament)
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The Draemon Provinces
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Posts: 48
Founded: Nov 19, 2015
Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby The Draemon Provinces » Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:42 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 17 (can drive at 15 with military status)
  • Vote in elections: 20 (employed people who are 30 - 60 can double vote)
  • Get married: 20
  • Join the military: 15
  • Age of consent: 20 (pre-marital laws are existent and enforced)
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 20 (no age limit under parental supervision)
  • Buy/use marijuana: N/A (illegal)
  • Buy/use any other drugs: ^
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 20
  • Become leader of your country: N/A (no defined age)
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Indinaia
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Founded: Apr 18, 2016
Ex-Nation

Postby Indinaia » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:16 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 21
  • Vote in elections: n/a
  • Get married: 21
  • Join the military: 16 (those not attending university - which is the vast majority of people - must complete four years of military service beginning right after leaving high school at 16)
  • Age of consent: 21
  • Buy/drink alcohol: n/a
  • Buy/use marijuana: n/a
  • Buy/use any other drugs: n/a
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 21
  • Become leader of your country: n/a - leaders are appointed, there is no minimum age (youngest ever appointed was 27).

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Voxija
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Posts: 1449
Founded: Jan 17, 2019
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Voxija » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:22 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 18
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 18
  • Join the military: 18
  • Age of consent: 18
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 18
  • Buy/use marijuana: n/a, banned.
  • Buy/use any other drugs: n/a, banned.
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18.
  • Become leader of your country: 32.
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Coliniana
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Founded: Apr 16, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Coliniana » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:13 pm

TLDR answers are in bold

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: Any age, but if you are below the age of 15 you must complete and pass two driver's ed courses instead of the normal one, and if you're below the age of 12 you must take two driver's ed courses and attain a perfect score on the final examinations of both courses (this has been done only 134 times in our nation's history, most recently in 2017 by one Quintus Scaevius.
  • Vote in elections: Any age, but you must take and pass a basic POCC Examination (Stands for Politicae, Oeconomica, et Civilis Cognitionis, meaning Political, Economic, and Civil Knowledge Examination). All Colinians are required by law to take this examination at the age of 20, but you may take it before and you may take it again afterward if you fail once one full calendar year has passed. If you're below the age of 12 you must take this examination two separate times with each version of the examination differing in specific subject matter.
  • Get married: 20
  • Join the military: 30
  • Age of consent: Not a federal matter, as this is up to specific provinces. There are 15 mainland Colinian provinces. In nine of them the age of consent is 16, in two of them it is 14, in two of them it is 18, in one of them it is 20, and in one it is 15.
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 20
  • Buy/use marijuana: 20
  • Buy/use any other drugs: N/A, illegal
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 20
  • Become leader of your country: 25 (Technically you just have to be an adult but you must take a five year course on governorship before you can legally be elected Federal Consul, and even then it is very unlikely to be nominated if you do not have some experience in governing cities, provinces, or holding a seat in Parliament. The youngest ever Federal Consul was Julia Naedimina at the age of 30, and the youngest nominee was Kaelius Andra at 29.)

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Ikuisuus
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Posts: 18
Founded: Sep 23, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Ikuisuus » Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:54 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 21
  • Vote in elections: 16
  • Get married: 21
  • Join the military: 16
  • Age of consent: 15
  • Buy/drink alcohol: N/A (Alcohol is illegal in Ikuisuus)
  • Buy/use marijuana: N/A (Illegal in Ikuisuus)
  • Buy/use any other drugs: N/A (Illegal in Ikuisuus)
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 16
  • Become leader of your country: 30

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Creslonia
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Posts: 227
Founded: Oct 27, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Creslonia » Thu Apr 25, 2019 1:33 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 16
  • Vote in elections: 15
  • Get married: 18
  • Join the military: 17
  • Age of consent: 14
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 17
  • Buy/use marijuana: 18
  • Buy/use any other drugs: 18
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: 18

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Siebe Station Jaiana
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Posts: 25
Founded: Apr 19, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Siebe Station Jaiana » Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:23 am

We don't have a legal minimum age for any of the things listed

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Hammer Britannia
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Posts: 5390
Founded: Oct 08, 2016
Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby Hammer Britannia » Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:26 am

Siebe Station Jaiana wrote:We don't have a legal minimum age for any of the things listed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08vk9g-jcsM
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Siebe Station Jaiana
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Founded: Apr 19, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Siebe Station Jaiana » Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:16 am

Hammer Britannia wrote:
Siebe Station Jaiana wrote:We don't have a legal minimum age for any of the things listed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08vk9g-jcsM

Nice, but no, it's not considered a approval of paedophilia or any such thing. It's just a recognition that with technology such as brain scans and all the rest of it, we have far better ways of assessing an individuals' ability to give informed consent for any activity than a minimum age

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Aequator Sancta-Crux
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Posts: 2
Founded: Apr 20, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Aequator Sancta-Crux » Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:18 am

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 18
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 15 (with parental consent or court order); 18 without parental/judicial consent
  • Join the military: 18
  • Age of consent: 15
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 15
  • Buy/use marijuana: N/A (illegal)
  • Buy/use any other drugs: 15 to buy (when medically authorized only)
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: 18

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Confederate New Orleans
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Posts: 7
Founded: Apr 24, 2019
Ex-Nation

Postby Confederate New Orleans » Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:15 pm

  • What is the minimum legal age to:
  • Get a driver's license: 16
  • Vote in elections: 18
  • Get married: 18
  • Join the military: 18
  • Age of consent: 18
  • Buy/drink alcohol: 21
  • Buy/use marijuana: N/A it's illegal
  • Buy/use any other drugs: N/A its illegal
  • Be legally recognized as an adult under your nation's laws: 18
  • Become leader of your country: 30

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