Kitacho Pro-LGBT Tourism Index (CLOSED)

[Sungai Pusat]

Official Information
Name of person/organisation taking questionnaire: Nostradario Israel White Shirts.
Name of nation: Margno
Form of government: Anarchist
Population: Approximately 1 million.
Tech level of nation: MT
How prevalent is tourism in your nation? Quite prevalent, despite also being among the most frequently avoided places in the region.

Anti-discrimination legislation
1a) Are there any anti-discrimination laws that apply for all minorities? No.
b) Are there any anti-discrimination laws applying specifically for LGBT minorities? No.
c) How extensive do such anti-discrimination laws go? N/A
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? N/A

Marriage/Partnership
1. Status of civil unions in your country: No legal status.
2. Status of gay marriage in your country: . No legal status.

Adoption Status
1a) Are homosexual couples able to adopt children? Yes.
b) Are there any conditions for homosexual couples to adopt? No.
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? N/A

LGBT-Marketing
Does your country's travel companies market towards LGBT tourirsts? No travel companies based in Margno. The ones based in the Democratic Republic usually maintain a pretense of societism, but know perfectly well that Margno is a haven to sexual minorities.

Equal Age of Consent
1. Age of consent for sex for heterosexual couples: None
2. Age of consent for sex for homosexual couples: None
3. Is the age of consent different for tourists? N/A

Religious influence
1a) Is there a state religion in your country? Yes.
b)(i) Does the state religion condemn acts of homosexuality? Debated internationally, but the marginals haven't historically felt so.
(ii) If so, does a majority of the population follow this religion? Yes.
2. If so, does the state religion influence the government's decision on legislation regarding LGBT minorities? No government.

HIV-travel restrictions
1. Are citizens infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel beyond the country's borders? Yes.
2. Are foreigners infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel into the country's borders? Yes.
3. Are offenders who travel in or out of the country punishiable by anything more than deportation under the law? No.

Anti-gay laws
1a) Are there laws that discriminate against minorities as a whole? No.
b) Are there laws that discriminate LGBT minorities specifically? No.
c) How extensive do such discriminatory laws go? N/A
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? N/A

Homosexuality illegal
1a) Is committing sexual activities with a person of the same sex criminalised under the law? No.
b) Are offenders of the law punished by a jail term beyond 10 years, execution, torture, et cetera? No.
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? N/A

Pride banned
1a) Are LGBT pride parades illegal in your country? No.
b) If not, are such pride parades common in your country? The marginals detest pride. If homosexual marginals were to mount a demonstration, it would be a gay love parade.

Locals hostile
1. What is the percentage of the population that believes homosexuality should not be accepted by society? Probably not more than six or seven percent.
2. Are LGBT related activities welcomed or shunned by society in general? No.

Persecution
1a) Have there been reported acts of persecution committed against LGBT minorities by the locals? Not really.
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media? No.

Murders
1a) Have there been reported murders of those who are part of LGBT minorities committed by the locals? Innumerable murders by secret Vanguard's operatives and the Dawnguard, so be warned. Gay tourists aren't really their targets, but a bus bombing doesn't care whether you're Nistine or Fesheth. None by locals, though. The only violent marginals are the members of Ex Echelus Nostrus and, more recently, the Blue Foxes, who are violently pro-gay and essentially neutral, respectively.
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media? No.

Death sentences
1a) Have there been reported executions targeted specifically at a person for committing activities related to the LGBT community/homosexual acts? No.
b) Are such executions glorified by the local media? N/A

Miscellaneous*
Country's Estimated Number of Gay Gathering Places per 100,000 homosexual tourists: It doesn't really work that way in Margno.
Are there any questions regarding this questionnaire? If so, please tell us what questions you may have:

*Optional, it doesn't matter in this index.

OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE OF THE KITACHO INSTITUTE

To: Nostradario Israel White Shirts
From: Kitacho Institute

Thank you for taking the questionnaire. Your answers have been computed and we have your results.

Your nation's final assessment on the LTI is Neutral, at 2 points.

Breakdown of scoring
Anti-discrimination legislation: 0
Marriage/Partnership: 0
Adoption Status: 1
LGBT Marketing: 0
Equal Age of Consent: 0
Religious influence: 0
HIV-travel restrictions: 0
Anti-gay laws: 0
Homosexuality illegal: 0
Pride banned: 1
Locals hostile: 0
Persecution: 0
Murders: 0
Death sentences: 0

Any queries regarding the scoring may be addressed to the Kitacho Institute via intergalactic telegram.

[Aurinsula]

Official Information
Name of person/organisation taking questionnaire: Assistant Vice-Minister Fang Jingqiao
Name of nation: The Republic of Aurinsula
Form of government: Presidential Republic
Population: 73 million.
Tech level of nation: MT
How prevalent is tourism in your nation? It's our 12th-largest industry, and one of our fastest-growing.

Anti-discrimination legislation
1a) Are there any anti-discrimination laws that apply for all minorities? Yes
b) Are there any anti-discrimination laws applying specifically for LGBT minorities? No
c) How extensive do such anti-discrimination laws go? They are poorly-enforced, but are primarily for the benefit of the country's native ethnic groups and thus are of no consequence to foreign tourists.
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? Yes.

Marriage/Partnership
1. Status of civil unions in your country: No
2. Status of gay marriage in your country: No

Adoption Status
1a) Are homosexual couples able to adopt children? Only individuals can adopt children, but avowed status as a homosexual is a definite black mark.
b) Are there any conditions for homosexual couples to adopt? They have to otherwise be exemplary individuals; the standards are higher.
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? Yes.

LGBT-Marketing
Does your country's travel companies market towards LGBT tourirsts? Yes. Several large tourism companies prepare LGBT packages, and there are several small companies that cater to them explicitly.

Equal Age of Consent
1. Age of consent for sex for heterosexual couples: 14.
2. Age of consent for sex for homosexual couples: 14.
3. Is the age of consent different for tourists? No.

Religious influence
1a) Is there a state religion in your country? No, but there is a definite majority religion.
b)(i) Does the state religion condemn acts of homosexuality? Not per se.
(ii) If so, does a majority of the population follow this religion?
2. If so, does the state religion influence the government's decision on legislation regarding LGBT minorities? It has attempted to provoke the government into expanding the legal status of LGBT minorities, but has failed to do so.

HIV-travel restrictions
1. Are citizens infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel beyond the country's borders? Yes.
2. Are foreigners infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel into the country's borders? Yes.
3. Are offenders who travel in or out of the country punishiable by anything more than deportation under the law? Only in the case of higher-degree felonies.

Anti-gay laws
1a) Are there laws that discriminate against minorities as a whole? Only electoral ones.
b) Are there laws that discriminate LGBT minorities specifically? No.
c) How extensive do such discriminatory laws go? N/A
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? No.

Homosexuality illegal
1a) Is committing sexual activities with a person of the same sex criminalised under the law? No. It was until 1967, but such laws have been repealed.
b) Are offenders of the law punished by a jail term beyond 10 years, execution, torture, et cetera? N/A
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? N/A

Pride banned
1a) Are LGBT pride parades illegal in your country? No
b) If not, are such pride parades common in your country? No

Locals hostile
1. What is the percentage of the population that believes homosexuality should not be accepted by society? 30 to 45 percent.
2. Are LGBT related activities welcomed or shunned by society in general? There is no universal stance, and public opinion runs the spectrum from full acceptance to mild aversion, with more people, sadly, near the latter end.

Persecution
1a) Have there been reported acts of persecution committed against LGBT minorities by the locals? Yes, mainly in the field of employment discrimination and parental abandonment.
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media? No; they are either ignored or castigated.

Murders
1a) Have there been reported murders of those who are part of LGBT minorities committed by the locals? None that have any conclusive connection to hate crime.
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media? No.

Death sentences
1a) Have there been reported executions targeted specifically at a person for committing activities related to the LGBT community/homosexual acts? No.
b) Are such executions glorified by the local media? No.

Miscellaneous*
Country's Estimated Number of Gay Gathering Places per 100,000 homosexual tourists: 50
Are there any questions regarding this questionnaire? If so, please tell us what questions you may have: N/A

*Optional, it doesn't matter in this index.

[Avaerilon]

Official Information
Name of person/organisation taking questionnaire: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of His Most Royal Majesty's Government
Name of nation: Avaerilon
Form of government: Constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy
Population: 54,898,204
Tech level of nation: Fan-MT
How prevalent is tourism in your nation? Very much so; tourism is one of the leading industries in Avaerilon, and worth trillions of Aubs each year

Anti-discrimination legislation
1a) Are there any anti-discrimination laws that apply for all minorities? Where sensible and appropriate
b) Are there any anti-discrimination laws applying specifically for LGBT minorities? Where sensible and appropriate
c) How extensive do such anti-discrimination laws go? All such laws ensure that no-one is subject to ill-treatment, hostility and the like to ensure all minority and LBGT persons are treated equally with other persons, and have an equally fair chance to pure their chosen lifestyle, career and anything else in life without harassment or discrimination
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? Where appropriate to non-citizens; for instance, LGBT tourists can expect the same protection under the law from extreme phobias and violence as an Avaerilonian citizen

Marriage/Partnership
1. Status of civil unions in your country: Civil unions were made legal in the cases of non-heterosexual marriages in the early 1930s, with full marriage rights being granted in the 1960s. As such, they are technically defunct
2. Status of gay marriage in your country: Legal and recognised

Adoption Status
1a) Are homosexual couples able to adopt children? Yes
b) Are there any conditions for homosexual couples to adopt? No (there are no special conditions for homosexual couples; any conditions in terms of child adoption itself are the same as those for heterosexual couples)
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? n/a

LGBT-Marketing
Does your country's travel companies market towards LGBT tourirsts? Some do indeed

Equal Age of Consent
1. Age of consent for sex for heterosexual couples: 16
2. Age of consent for sex for homosexual couples: 16
3. Is the age of consent different for tourists? No

Religious influence
1a) Is there a state religion in your country? No
b)(i) Does the state religion condemn acts of homosexuality?
(ii) If so, does a majority of the population follow this religion?
2. If so, does the state religion influence the government's decision on legislation regarding LGBT minorities?

HIV-travel restrictions
1. Are citizens infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel beyond the country's borders? Yes
2. Are foreigners infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel into the country's borders? Yes
3. Are offenders who travel in or out of the country punishiable by anything more than deportation under the law? n/a

Anti-gay laws
1a) Are there laws that discriminate against minorities as a whole? No
b) Are there laws that discriminate LGBT minorities specifically? No
c) How extensive do such discriminatory laws go?
d) Do such laws apply to tourists?

Homosexuality illegal
1a) Is committing sexual activities with a person of the same sex criminalised under the law? No
b) Are offenders of the law punished by a jail term beyond 10 years, execution, torture, et cetera?
c) Do such laws apply to tourists?

Pride banned
1a) Are LGBT pride parades illegal in your country? No
b) If not, are such pride parades common in your country? Not especially; 'identity' parades are viewed as a foreign concept, and Avaerilon generally so accepting and tolerant that LBGT organisations do not feel the need to organise such parades. They have taken place in the past, but most LBGT citizens look on 'identity' parades as other Avaerilonians do- a little odd

Locals hostile
1. What is the percentage of the population that believes homosexuality should not be accepted by society? Less than 5%
2. Are LGBT related activities welcomed or shunned by society in general? LBGT activities are welcomed by society in general

Persecution
1a) Have there been reported acts of persecution committed against LGBT minorities by the locals? No
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media?

Murders
1a) Have there been reported murders of those who are part of LGBT minorities committed by the locals? No
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media?

Death sentences
1a) Have there been reported executions targeted specifically at a person for committing activities related to the LGBT community/homosexual acts? No
b) Are such executions glorified by the local media?

Miscellaneous*
Country's Estimated Number of Gay Gathering Places per 100,000 homosexual tourists: 100-150
Are there any questions regarding this questionnaire? If so, please tell us what questions you may have:

*Optional, it doesn't matter in this index.

OOC notes: It would be a good idea to expand the 'religion' section beyond simply a state religion and about religious beliefs and their stance towards LBGT in-general. The same could be done with the media section; i.e. it could be expanded to include questions about the existence of LBGT-specific media and how sympathetic the media as a whole is to the LBGT community. Currently, the index appears to presume hostility in-general from the media, which in the case of many nations, mine included, is simply quite untrue.

[Sungai Pusat]

OOC notes: It would be a good idea to expand the 'religion' section beyond simply a state religion and about religious beliefs and their stance towards LBGT in-general. The same could be done with the media section; i.e. it could be expanded to include questions about the existence of LBGT-specific media and how sympathetic the media as a whole is to the LBGT community. Currently, the index appears to presume hostility in-general from the media, which in the case of many nations, mine included, is simply quite untrue.

OOC: Yes, it would be a good idea...

I think I had rushed a bit too fast into this, partly because I felt like I'd have no motivation otherwise, but this is a valid point, really: I just went and said 'state religion' because of the presumption on state religion generally affecting the index more than religion in general. And whether the media is sympathetic to LGBTs or if there is media specific to LGBTs is also important in this kind of an index.

I think I'll close this for now while I fix the issue. Probably have to fix some other things wrong with this index too.

[Esalonia]

Official Information
Name of person/organisation taking questionnaire: Ministry of State Affairs
Name of nation: United Commonwealth of Esalonia
Form of government: Representative Democracy
Population: Follows NS Stats
Tech level of nation: NS MT
How prevalent is tourism in your nation? Very prevalent.

Anti-discrimination legislation
1a) Are there any anti-discrimination laws that apply for all minorities? Yes
b) Are there any anti-discrimination laws applying specifically for LGBT minorities? No. But you'll see alter in this questionnaire. The government keeps silent on LGBT rights but murdering an LGBT is seen as murdering a person, so no matter who you kill you go to jail.
c) How extensive do such anti-discrimination laws go? Hate crime is hate crime. Mass surveillance, military patrols, to deploying a tank company at a Neo-Nazi convention.
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? Yes.

Marriage/Partnership
1. Status of civil unions in your country: Recognized
2. Status of gay marriage in your country: Most homosexual unions are restricted to civil unions, not because of the government disallowing marriage but because of local priests being against marrying homosexuals.

Adoption Status
1a) Are homosexual couples able to adopt children? Yes
b) Are there any conditions for homosexual couples to adopt? Requirements for adoption are universal for all couples and people. (That includes homosexual couples, yes.)
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? Yes

LGBT-Marketing
Does your country's travel companies market towards LGBT tourirsts? Yes.

Equal Age of Consent
1. Age of consent for sex for heterosexual couples: 18
2. Age of consent for sex for homosexual couples: 18
3. Is the age of consent different for tourists? No

Religious influence
1a) Is there a state religion in your country? No, but Esalonia is predominantly Christian.
b)(i) Does the state religion condemn acts of homosexuality? No.
(ii) If so, does a majority of the population follow this religion? Yes.
2. If so, does the state religion influence the government's decision on legislation regarding LGBT minorities?

HIV-travel restrictions
1. Are citizens infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel beyond the country's borders? No.
2. Are foreigners infected with HIV/AIDS allowed to travel into the country's borders? No.
3. Are offenders who travel in or out of the country punishiable by anything more than deportation under the law?

Anti-gay laws
1a) Are there laws that discriminate against minorities as a whole? No
b) Are there laws that discriminate LGBT minorities specifically? No
c) How extensive do such discriminatory laws go? We do not have discrimination laws.
d) Do such laws apply to tourists? We do not have discrimination laws.

Homosexuality illegal
1a) Is committing sexual activities with a person of the same sex criminalised under the law? Private only, else if it's public they get charged with sodomy and public lewdness.
b) Are offenders of the law punished by a jail term beyond 10 years, execution, torture, et cetera? Jail only.
c) Do such laws apply to tourists? Yes

Pride banned
1a) Are LGBT pride parades illegal in your country? No
b) If not, are such pride parades common in your country? No

Locals hostile
1. What is the percentage of the population that believes homosexuality should not be accepted by society? The populace is like "I don't give a fuck" versus LGBT.
2. Are LGBT related activities welcomed or shunned by society in general? Depends on the activity, but public gay sodomy is shunned, as would be public sex between a straight man and a straight woman. Though, locals allow homosexual couples to date each other.

Persecution
1a) Have there been reported acts of persecution committed against LGBT minorities by the locals? If there is any the perpetrator is punished.
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media? No.

Murders
1a) Have there been reported murders of those who are part of LGBT minorities committed by the locals? If any the perpetrator is punished. In the first place prevalence of murder is very low.
b) Are such acts glorified by the local media? No.

Death sentences
1a) Have there been reported executions targeted specifically at a person for committing activities related to the LGBT community/homosexual acts? LGBT activities are not sanctionable by death penalty
b) Are such executions glorified by the local media? No

Miscellaneous*
Country's Estimated Number of Gay Gathering Places per 100,000 homosexual tourists:
Are there any questions regarding this questionnaire? If so, please tell us what questions you may have:

*Optional, it doesn't matter in this index.