What is the weirdest thing your nation ever banned? In Helvagon, lima beans are officially outlawed.
Backstory?
One day all the way back 107 years ago in the Council of Karoms, Samuel Ramirez, the representative from the planet Grehoid, was 1 hour and 34 minutes late for the meeting. He burst in the door and sat down in his chair, hoping nobody would notice. They all did though, and asked him why he was so late. He then told them that a witch had turned him into a newt, and when the other council members eyed him suspiciously, he added that he got better. The meeting went on, and it turned out that the Association Against Lousy Excuses (AALE) had sent an agent to follow him to work after noticing he was late, just to see if he'd make an excuse. The AALE released the footage of his entrance to the press as a fact, they said that Samuel had indeed been turned into a newt by a witch, just to troll (they never did like the government anyway). The public was outraged that someone dared to turn one of the council members into a lowly animal like a newt and set out to find the witch. After some investigation by a group of schoolchildren, the real reason why Samuel was late came out (he had run out of lima beans and wanted to go to the store to get more so his wife could snack on them) and the public was outraged at Samuel for telling the lie and getting them to spend much of their own money to find the culprit, and he was voted out the next election. Mr. Ramirez, who was known to be a little bit crazy, decided he was going to blame lima beans for his misfortune, and founded the Anti Lima Bean Association (ALBA) dedicated to the attempt to force the plant species Phaseolus lunatus (lima bean plants) go extinct. 238 Other members joined the group, and the ALBA quickly gained popularity after various members were able to write and sell books on the dangers of the lima bean. Some strange new extremist cult grew out of these ideas, and the members terrorized any people who ate, grew, or sold lima beans. The cult remained untouchable for 30 years afterward, but the leader was eventually caught and the terrorism ended. Just to be safe though, the government banned all lima beans to prevent further issues.
