At what age is someone considered an adult in YN?

[Coconut Palm Island]

There are really three major ages at which individuals receive more privileges and responsibilities.

At age 16, a person can:

• Vote
• Drive (with restrictions)
• Purchase Class B and C drugs (includes alcohol with ABV less than 6%, marijuana, mild sedatives, and weak opioids)
• Make financial, educational, and medical decisions, within reason
• Have legal adult status (can be tried as an adult)
• Have a part-time (20 hrs/week) job
• Apply to be emancipated from parents (this can be done before age 16 in the case of parental abuse). In addition, individuals over 16 with divorced parents can choose how much time to spend with each parent, custody agreements are rendered void on one's 16th birthday.
• Become a Senator

At age 18, a person can:
[*]Purchase Class A ("hard") drugs (heroin, cocaine, tranquilizers, nicotine, hard liquor)
[*]Drive with none of the legal restrictions placed upon a 16 year old
[*]Have the choice of no longer attending school (this right is also granted to anyone who graduates high school in good standing before turning 18).
[*]Have a full time (up to 45 hrs/week) job.
[*]Gamble (to prevent the devastation that accompanies gambling addiction, citizens may only gamble 1,600 USD per month, win or lose.)
[*]Be legally independent (a child under 18 is still technically obligated to obey his/her parents, unless they are abusive or grossly negligent of the child)
[*]Become a Royal Court Justice
[*]Become a member of the King's Cabinet


Fun fact, there is no age limit for the Monarch. One can be King/Queen at any age, given the Senate's approval.

[Bangsamoro Rojo]

The Bangsamoro Workers' and Peasant's Party defines adulthood as reaching the age of 18 years.

[The Nahi Confederacy]

Culturally, Nahi are considered adults at age 16.

[Idiocarasia]

they are considered a young adult when they partake in the surviving ritual (and live).
they are considered a full adult when they take their first life on a raid.
(and for those saying what about consent, we're sterile )

[Caleonia]

In Caleonia, a person is considered an adult by two very simple requirements:

-They must have passed high school.
-They must be at or over the age of 21.

[Free Arabian Nation]

16, at the age of 16 you have the full legal-rights of a adult.

[Ccanda]

I feel that by the age of 16, humans are perfectly capable of making informed decisions and live a good life on their own.

[Cannidarsa]

In Cannidarsa, citizens are legally and culturally considered adults when they reach 16 years of age. At age 16, citizens may do anything an adult in any country may be able to do. No restrictions.

[Nova Samnium]

For men, 15 to 17. At fifteen, boys participate in the Festival of Juventas, wherein they retire the traditional toga of their youth. Even so, they're not fully adults, full electors and free agents, until the age of seventeen, when after years of military training and public education, they begin their required term of ten campaigns or six years in the legions, whichever comes first.

With women, it's whenever they get married and typically cease to be in their father's' hand. It is very uncommon for young women to pass to the hand of their husbands these days (cum manu or with hand), instead they are bound to the authority of their husbands within the household and regarding the affairs of said household, but they are not permanently under their law and cannot be executed by said husbands anymore in the most common form of marriage (sine manu or without hand). After death or divorce of said husband, they automatically and completely pass to being sui iuris, that is, under their own law, though if they remarry, they must submit to the lawful authority of the new husband, but only for the duration of the marriage.

[Fostoria]

The "adult" age is 18 (for most legal rights and etc.), but many freedoms are gained at 15-16.

[Great Nortend]

Traditionally the definition of a child would be someone being nursed at home (other than in a genealogical sense of course). Children become adults when they are confirmed in the Church, usually around the age of sixteen, at least socially. Traditionally this would occur soon after puberty, however it has been delayed over the years as life expectancies grew. At this time, a boy would be likely considered an adolescent and thus gain the honorific 'Mister' rather than 'Master', and a girl considered a maiden with the title of 'Miss' (kept throughout her unmarried life).

[Omarios]

18, is an adult legally, 21 you are fully independent.

[Thama]

Roughly at the age of 24. People are legally adults at 17 but socially speaking those several years you are just a kid who can legally do adult things.

[MineLegotia and Equestria]

Chidlren are considered to have a sense of responsibility since 12. They are treated adults in society, but in the law, they are seen as "maturing adults", they have a bit more rights then "children" (below 12), like owning a bank account, and having a citizen card. In this age, "matured adults," would do their best to make the child think independently, and critically. And then 18, they are expected to be able to do thing on their own, financially, responsibilityly (like, responsible for everything they do), and then they are considered "matured adults," and have all the rights an adult has.

[Minoa]

A teenager is widely defined as the start of secondary school at Year 7. That is about 11 or 12 years of age.

At 15, you can learn to ride a motorbike or drive a car at approved learner centres.

The minimum voting age, and the age of criminal responsibility is 16 years. As for the latter, even then only a few offences result in a criminal record lasting more than 2 years and six months. You can thank the Norwegians for why Minoa believes that being tough on crime may backfire in terms of reoffending. At 16, you can buy lottery tickets and alcohol, and start riding a motorbike.

17 years is the minimum age for volunteering in the coalition defence forces Minoa (currently consisting of Catalonia, Finland, Portugal and Spain), but they don't get front-line action until they are 21 years old. 17 years is also when you can start driving a car, and is also the age of consent.

18 years is the legal age of adulthood, and also the minimum age when a person can open a bank account. 18 years is also the age when compulsory education ends, and also the age when you can run for office, get married, or register for a legal partnership.

18 years is also the minimum age for prison. You can thank prison overcrowding in the United States for why no one other than war criminals can be sentenced to more than 21 years in prison (extendable only at five years at a time after 14 years, only if necessary to protect the safety of the public).

62 years is the retirement age, but it is not compulsory to retire.

[New Excalibus]

Teenage years - 13 - 18
Young Adult years 18 - 20
Adult 20 - 70
Senior 70 - 90

[Reedian]

We actually have a factbook for this:
Age for drinking: 17
Age for smoking: 20
Age for smoking pot: 17
Age of consent: 16
Age to “vote”: 17
Unofficial age of military conscription: 18, though children as young as 12 are allowed to serve with parental or state consent
Age of education: start at 5 end at 17, all colleges are free of charge and run by the state
Age to drive a vehicle: 17
Age to start work: 17

[Ghost Land]

We actually have a factbook for this:
Age for drinking: 17
Age for smoking: 20
Age for smoking pot: 17
Age of consent: 16
Age to “vote”: 17
Unofficial age of military conscription: 18, though children as young as 12 are allowed to serve with parental or state consent
Age of education: start at 5 end at 17, all colleges are free of charge and run by the state
Age to drive a vehicle: 17
Age to start work: 17

OOC: I actually really like this.

In Ghost Land, people become adults at 20, but it is acceptable and in many areas expected to remain dependent on one's parents into his or her 30s. People under age 20 are considered the property of their parents and have no rights of their own.

[Subhurbia]

In Subhurbia, you're not considered an adult until the age of 25. That's when you're expected to take more responsible roles in life.

[Tyvertsia]

The general consensus is usually somewhere between 16 and 19. It's more a question of maturity than age, though, and most people don't marry until their 20's.

[Syndic Australia]

Legally, one is considered an adult in Australia at the age of 18, which is also the age that most finish secondary education and enter into two years of civil service. Culturally, it's a pretty even split whether one is considered an adult at 18 or 20, when civil service ends and one either enters into the workforce fully or goes on to tertiary education. Those who begin apprenticeships as soon as they are available, at age 16, could also be considered adults by their peers and workmates, at the very least.

[Alinghi Federal-Democratic Republic]

In all canton legally someone considered an adult at the age of 18, but the minor have the possibility to vote at 16 years old, have a job at 14 years old (and the parent can't dispone these money earned by the work contract), etc...

[Socialist North Britain]

Officially, the age of majority is 21. In everyday life, however, 18 is usually considered the age at which one reaches adulthood, as this is the age at which most finish their formal education, and people by this age have the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of the adult population, with a few exceptions (one cannot be deployed to a warzone, receive the death penalty, or be sent to an adult prison until the age of 21). However some of these are achieved before the age of 18. For example, a 16 year old can enter into a legal contract, work a full-time job, and consent to sexual relations; at 17, one can learn to drive a motor vehicle, and, if male, may be required to perform military service.

[Mayakava]

Majority is at 25, and it's at this age that citizens are no longer protected
under the protection act, and can risk reeducation camp time, for their
mischief.

Young teenagers can join a youth scout group, at the age of 13, and join the
army at the age of 19, if that's their choice, or if they were not accepted and
given funds for university.

School start at the age of 6, before they are 6 children are being taught
by their mothers, after the age of 19 school is only reserved for those who were accepted into
university and given funds.

Citizens can start to drink at the age of 16, but only certain types of alcohol, and
can drink all types of alcohol at the age of 25.

And at 14 years old, teenagers can have part-time or summer jobs, and only
have a full time job, when they are 25, and after a military service, or their studies.

Citizens can obtain a driver license and drive a car, at the age of 16

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

You are adult at 18.
But, in some cases it goes down to 16. You can emancipate at 16, consent (except in few circumstances that is 18), by judged as adult depending on the importance of the offense, get married, start working, enlist in the military(but not serve in combat roles or overseas if you are not 18), get a scooter license, get a tractor license or a hunting permit.