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Free Gardon
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Postby Free Gardon » Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:37 am

Alcohol is legal in ALL 13 nations of Free Gardon.

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Omicron Tara
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Postby Omicron Tara » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:10 am

Alcohol is legal, and the drinking age is currently set to 18 (although measures to lower it to 16 are frequently proposed by the Congress of Citizens). There are no regulations on the production of alcohol, but the sale of alcohol for human consumption is restricted to licensed distributors buying from properly licensed brewers.

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Postby Luziyca » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:08 am

It is legal, but you cannot buy or consume alcoholic beverages until you are 21.

The exception is wine, which you may consume once you complete First Communion.
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Astrakhstan
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Postby Astrakhstan » Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:31 pm

Alcohol is strictly prohibited. No producing it, and no consuming it.

Some people have managed to make their own alcohol, but the ever-increasing surveillance in Astrakhstan has made this much harder to do without getting caught.

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Region Twenty
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Postby Region Twenty » Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:30 pm

Alcohol is fully legal, and there is no minimum age for consumption nor purchase. However, we are currently undergoing a bit of an alcohol shortage.

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Linderee
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Postby Linderee » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:47 pm

Is alcohol legal in your country?
No

If so, what is the regulation?
Fines for possesion or intoxication. Jail for smuggling.
Wine is allowed for religious puropses, if safely kept.

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Tzesniya
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Postby Tzesniya » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:49 pm

Alcohol mind as well flow in the rivers here.

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Snoodum
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Postby Snoodum » Sat Feb 03, 2018 5:29 am

Is alcohol legal in your country?
Alcohol is illegal in Snoodum

If so, what is the regulation?
There are no regulations, only crimes for those illegally possessing the poison.

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Postby Vyzhva » Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:57 am

Is alcohol legal in your country?

No. Vyzhvans are taught from birth that alcohol is a destructive beverage. Consuming alcohol is punishable by heavy fines.
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Postby Carlist Spains » Sat Feb 03, 2018 8:38 am

It’s legal, it has a 30% tax and it is only legal from 16 and onwards.
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Trablis
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Postby Trablis » Sat Feb 03, 2018 12:35 pm

Alcohol is illegal except in one resort area however the government is working on banning it there.

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Postby Aztlanta » Sat Feb 03, 2018 12:44 pm

Is alcohol legal in your country?
Yes, alcohol is legal within Aztlanta.

If so, what is the regulation?
Citizens under the age of 16 are banned from purchasing alcoholic products. Operating vehicles or heavy machinery under the influence of it is considered a criminal offense.
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Postby Webus » Sat Feb 03, 2018 12:53 pm

Alcohol becomes legal at 16, except in Church, where it can be served at part of communion to persons younger. It is illegal to serve or sell Alcohol to any person who is drunk, and it is illegal to be drunk while driving a motorized vehicle. Public drunkenness is punishable by a fine, and operating a motorized vehicle while drunk is a criminal offense.
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The Kentads
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Postby The Kentads » Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:24 pm

Is alcohol legal in your country?

Yes.

If so, what is the regulation?

No regulation on the percentage of alcohol in a beverage. Can only be bought by people over 14, no restrictions on drinking age. Driving under the influence of alcohol is considered a minor misdemeanor.

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Postby New Hyannis » Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:35 pm

Is alcohol legal in your country?

Yes.

If so, what is the regulation?

No.

Basically, what a person ingests is their own business, and nobody else's, and certainly not yours, even if you believe your God is against alcohol. In that case all that means is you don't drink, but it imbues you with precisely no power or authority to regulate and govern the habits and hobbies of others.
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Midand
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Postby Midand » Sat Feb 03, 2018 11:56 pm

It is legal in Midand, though it is illegal to be visibly and annoyingly intoxicated while driving and in large public areas, as well as it being illegal for sale to minors. We encourage that you do not go crazy on the booze as well.
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Postby Vedastia » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:12 pm

Alcohol is legal in all cantons in Vedastia.

Anyone is allowed to consume alcohol at any age in most cantons, with 16 being the legal age to purchase alcohol, except for wine, which can be purchased at all ages.
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Postby Stroulia » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:34 pm

Is alcohol legal in your nation?
  • Yes.

If so, what is the regulation?
  • Anyone purchasing alcohol must be 20 years old.
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Las Espanyas
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Postby Las Espanyas » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:02 pm

It's legal. The restriction age is at 16, unless its wine, when it is at 12 (only if its with meals).
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Postby The Onigiri Enclave » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:08 pm

Alcohol is legal for all anywhere anytime, with the exception of rice-based spirits, unless one is currently operating some form of public transportation.
Drunk driving is mostly a non-issue in The Onigiri Enclave as automobiles were banned a long time ago for environmental reasons; most of the populace now gets around using buses, hyperloops, mag-lev monorails & bullet trains, and horse-drawn carriages, those still using personal transport relying on scooters, segways, and pack animals like horses & camels. As such, those rare instances of drunken driving carry a first infraction of having one's license suspended. The second time your eyes will be ripped from your sockets so you can never drive another vehicle ever again. And so help you if you maim someone as a result. That adds the penalty of suffering the same fate(s) as those you injured, each one inflicted consecutively, allowing for the guilty to recover enough to feel the suffering of the next person they made to suffer.
And as stated above, rice-based alcohol of any kind is wholly forbidden in The Onigiri Enclave. The consumption of rice is considered one of our few taboos, and if even found with such liquor, YOU WILL BE EXECUTED ON SIGHT WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. In Riceball terms, this means what we can find of you will be returned to your homeland in nothing more than a soup can, as such an offense will often warrant the use of 70mm incendiary rounds at the very least, with escalation of assault most than likely necessary.
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Postby Consigahria » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:48 pm

Jolthig wrote:Is alcohol legal in your country?

If so, what is the regulation?

In Jolthig, alcohol is legal in the privacy of your own home.


Legal restrictions of the possession of alcohol are imposed by the Consigahrian government onto its citizens in four aspects: on state-owned property, on government-owned property, and on private property; as well as where safety laws are concerned, which are in place to maintain law and order. These laws are the same laws which govern all drug use within federal jurisdiction.

In Consigahria, we have safety laws in place. They're kind of open-ended, but they're exceedingly well defined. For example, criminal negligence is to place a person, including yourself, in a situation where bodily harm is likely. Therefore, it is illegal to operate heavy machinery or drive an automobile under the influence of an intoxicant to an unsafe degree. If you have the tolerance of four elephants, and you can down a horse tranquilizer without a single yawn, that's one story--in a legal perspective, you can introduce intoxicants to your own body as you please. If you're about to drink and drive, however, that's another story. Moreover, it's specifically illegal to have an open container of alcohol in the car while you're driving, whether it's empty or not, or whether you're drinking it or it's just been sitting there a few days. That's punishable by a restriction of your driving privileges for six months. The number of months doubles per repeated offense.

Generally, on public property, which is owned by the government but unregulated except by the Ministry of Law and Order, possession and use of illicit drugs are not specifically illegal. This includes alcohol and tobacco.

On state-owned property, drug use of any kind is prohibited. Use or possession of drugs of any kind on state-owned property (legally defined as property owned by a city, county, or territory, except where considered "public property"), except by doctor's orders, is a misdemeanor offense. You can't enter a children's park or bank or grocery store and light up a fag, much less crack open a beer. The degree that possession of a drug is criminal depends on the drug's class--methamphetamine, for example, is illegal to possess on state-owned property, whereas tobacco is so noncriminal that it's basically ignored; although, if you smoke or drink rum in front of a public school, which are mandated by law to have zero-tolerance policies toward alcohol and drugs, you might hear from their security staff: "leave, or we're calling the cops." And that's "might," meaning most schools won't even bother to warn you before a cop creeps up behind you. If you're caught smoking a cigarette or drinking a beer within a school zone, you can be fined up to 500,000 ruices (about NS$980,000). If you're caught drinking hard liquor or doing an illicit drug in a school zone, you can be fined up to the same amount and jailed for up to six months. To get away unpunished, you would need a prescription from a doctor--a doctor validly accredited in Consigahria--which specifically says that you (the patient) have no choice but to do the drug at that specific time, and the fact that you had done the drug in a school zone would have to be due to that. Not even the Prime Minister would be exempt from this law.

However, if you are of royal status, you are likely to be exempt from this next law, though not in a technical sense. On government-owned property, it's illegal to possess or use a drug of any kind except by doctor's written consent (prescriptions written on the typical hospital/clinic visit summary suffices). Unlike the exceptions for prohibition that exist for state-owned property, a prescription won't be a saving grace. The Prime Minister and the royal staff are known for smoking cannabis during their free time (keep in mind that the Prime Minister lives in his place of work alongside his family); however, the Corporal Service, which serves to protect the Royal Family and royal staff, routinely enforce very strict staff drug protocols and fire anybody who partakes in a drug without a prescription, with the exception of alcohol. Those with government-given titles are considered royalty--landowner-slavers whose plantations or factories are a national cash cow, for example the owners of the Consigahrian Automobiles and Motors company's 158 plantations, are generally affiliated with the Royal Family on a personal level, and so the police dares not to fine or imprison them, except for people felonies such as theft, murder, etc.

However, on private property, the criminality of use of drugs is determined by the landowner. If you decide to move to Farrinchessie, a slum of Vermillion City, because it seems very affordable and convenient, and it turns out that the adults of the neighboring household are addicted to methamphetamine and they visibly have children, if you call the police in concern for the children, they will certainly perform a welfare check. This can turn out a few ways. In most cases, the police will contact the landowner; but if the landowner has no problem with methamphetamine usage on his property, even though there are children present, then the police can't make a drug bust, because methamphetamine is actually legal to have as a medication. It can be purchased at drug clinics in small doses, and doctors do occasionally prescribe it, in which case a patient, or potentially a meth addict, can get it for free, similar to getting liquid methadone to treat an addiction to heroin. That can make drug cases complicated. In order to make an arrest, the police will need a warrant in order to prove that the adults of that household do not have prescriptions for methamphetamine, as well as recorded media of some kind depicting the adults using or having used the drug without a prescription in the presence of children. (Like many illicit drugs that are easy to abuse, methamphetamine can be a medicine. While it's made differently, methamphetamine is given under the trade name Desoxyn, a treatment for ADHD, narcolepsy, and exogenous obesity; to qualify for Desoxyn, a patient must meet those criteria - the patient must have ADHD, narcolepsy, and exogenous or morbid obesity, and must not have anger management problems or a history of drug or alcohol abuse.)

In the case that a landowner doesn't know that his tenants are alcoholics, have children, and are abusive to their children because of their dependency on alcohol, welfare checks can be performed on request. This request can be made by anybody. Usually, after an assessment of the situation determines that the home is unsafe due to alcoholism and physical and/or verbal abuse, the children are removed from the home immediately and taken into police custody, at which time the children become what is called dependent of the state. This means that the government is essentially the sole legal guardian, the parents are stripped of their legal rights to keep and maintain their children, and the children come to be in legal custody. In much the same way, the parents are delivered to jail for their crimes, and the children are delivered to an orphanage; both parent and child wait to be seen by a judge. In this case, the government delegates authority to the territory (state) via the ruling of the Supreme Court, which delegates authority to the county to keep the child. Basically, a judge sees each child--each child has their own individual legal case--and determines which orphanage to send him to. Each county has at least one federally-funded orphanage, usually within, towering above, or buried underneath a hospital or school, and all of the hundreds of thousands of orphanages contain over 2.5 million children ages 20 and under; so vacancies aren't a dime a dozen. On the grounds of and within these orphanages, all drug use is prohibited (except, of course, by a doctor's prescription) and punished to the furthest extent of the law. That includes alcohol use. Unless you are a licensed physician delivering prescribed medicine, introducing a drug--cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco included--into a federally-funded institution meant to house dependents of the state is a felony offense punishable by 10 years in federal prison. Introducing a drug--cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco included--into a federally-funded institution meant to house inmates is also a federal offense, but its consequences are harsher: 15 years in federal prison, and 10 years of parole after serving your sentence.

We have over 22 billion people to keep track of. We're not overly concerned with enforcing prohibition of drug use through punishment. Our domestic policy toward drugs is, in cases where preemption doesn't stop predilection, it's better to reeducate than to punish. That basically means that drug lords are hastily imprisoned, whereas addicts - essentially seen as their victims - are rehabilitated if they voluntarily seek rehabilitation. This goes for pretty much any addictive substance, as harmless as chewing gum, as mild as alcohol, as deadly as scopolamine.
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Postby Republique Nouvelle Navaraise » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:54 am

Is alcohol legal in your country? Yes

If so, what is the regulation? You need a liquor license to sell it and produce it. Also you be over the age of 18 to buy alcohol, that is it when it comes to regulations. Alcohol is available to purchase in such places such as supermarkets, liquor stores, cafes, bars, nightclubs, convenience stores, restaurants and hotels.

Drinking alcohol is a deeply ingrained part of the culture, for example; people will have a glass of cider, beer or wine with meals. Have few drinks with workmates or friends at social functions. Alcohol consumption is more steady, but heavy drinking throughout the day. Rather than binge drinking on the weekends, however that occurs especially among the young. Drinking alcoholic drinks parts a major part of the social life in the country. The Muslim community (which is 3% of the population) finds it difficult to socially integrate because of drinking being a major part of social life in the country.
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Arvecnia
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Postby Arvecnia » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:56 am

In Arvecnia alcohol may only be consumed either in registered locations or in the home, anywhere else can result in fines.

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Postby Zartobania » Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:31 am

Alcohol is legal in Zartobania with the most popular type being domestically-produced Zartobanian Vodka, followed by Russian Vodka, Zhouranese Vodka, and Polish Wódka. Alcohol consumption is particularly high in Zartobania, along with alcohol-related violence, alcohol poisoning, and suicide.
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Postby Jolthig » Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:58 am

New questions have been added to the OP to expand information of each country and for the improvement of the OP as time goes on. :)
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