Strange laws of your nation

[Rejistania]

This is not one of the more serious threads, this one exists mainly to make the fellow NSistoj chuckle.

What strange, crazy and outright bizarre laws exist in your nation?

In Rejistania, it is forbidden to kill Kaskada'ny (a kind of butterfly and the national animal) on bank holidays.

While you are not allowed to go to school in clothing of the other gender in Karela kalesa, going naked is legal.

It is not allowed to set off nuclear weapons in Nanti likhat. The punishment is lifelong imprisonment and a 300 000 lil'kansu (about $250) fine.

It is explicitely forbidden to bring elephants into libraries in Inkatil reikijo.

While in Sumumusumu rekijo, viewing of adult material is only legal if you are older than 18, a federal regulation makes buying of adult material legal from the age of 14. So for four years, Sumumusumese youths can buy Playboy and similar magazines but are not allowed to look into them.

[Skeenation]

in my country mattress sleep on you, food eats you, and work do you!

[Swilatia]

Stupid laws in Swilatia

* It is illegal to use a lift while drunk

* An ashtray is considered a deadly weapon

* Failure to flush a public toilet after use can result in a fine

* It is illegal to run out of gas on any street or road in Swilatia

* Taxi drivers must pay royalties if they play music in their cars for paying customers.

* It is illegal to wear a mask in public

* Banknotes of the national currency must not touch the ground

[Allanea]

While in Sumumusumu rekijo, viewing of adult material is only legal if you are older than 18, a federal regulation makes buying of adult material legal from the age of 14. So for four years, Sumumusumese youths can buy Playboy and similar magazines but are not allowed to look into them.

Weren't boys aged 14-18 the main market for porn magazines?

[Rejistania]

While in Sumumusumu rekijo, viewing of adult material is only legal if you are older than 18, a federal regulation makes buying of adult material legal from the age of 14. So for four years, Sumumusumese youths can buy Playboy and similar magazines but are not allowed to look into them.

Weren't boys aged 14-18 the main market for porn magazines?

For some odd reason, Sumumusumese youths do not look into them, they are just asked by their fathers and mothers to get them surprisingly often

[The Louisiana Republic]

Dying a virgin is illegal in the Louisiana Republic. If you do, your body is thrown into the Pit of Losers. Even if it's a stillborn infant.

Damn, we're mean.

[Felixburgh]

In Felixburgh, if you are impolite, you are shot. If you are too cheerful, you shot. If you are too depressed you are shot. If you walk to close to the wall installed for your protection you are escorted back into a safe zone. And shot.

[Allanea]

Dying a virgin is illegal in the Louisiana Republic. If you do, your body is thrown into the Pit of Losers. Even if it's a stillborn infant.

Damn, we're mean.

To be fair, if I'm dying, the last thing on my mind would be "Oh crap, they'll throw my body into a pit because I'm a virgin!"

[The Louisiana Republic]

It's a weird law. I was being sarcastic with the 'mean' thing.

[Cheztope]

Weird Laws in Cheztope

*It is illegal to go to the bathroom on a public street.

*It is illegal to sell Meth and Heroin, but it is legal to use it in one's privacy

*It is illegal to park over the line in a parking space ($250 fine)

[Lord Atum]

All persons killing falcons deliberately are liable to be excecuted. Similar protection is extended to snakes, mongeese, lions, bulls, lizards, and apes. These are the totemic animals with which Atum is generally identified.

[Steel and Fire]

In Felixburgh, if you are impolite, you are shot. If you are too cheerful, you shot. If you are too depressed you are shot. If you walk to close to the wall installed for your protection you are escorted back into a safe zone. And shot.

The safe zone can't be all that safe, though, with all those bullets flying around! The people who named it that should be shot.


In Steel and Fire it is legal to hunt not only most game animals but also pacifists. When the law was passed, the pacifists protested peacefully, but were forced to flee when hunters arrived. Some of them took up arms and thus were no longer considered to be pacifists, so that the hunters who eventually shot them were imprisoned for murder.

Arcadia, the capital of Steel and Fire, is a very overcrowded place, with over one billion inhabitants. Thus, it is illegal for any buildings of ten stories or fewer to be built, and non-historic buildings of fewer than ten stories (erected before the law was made) should be eventually torn down and replaced with taller ones. Indeed, Arcadia's zoning laws are so complicated that most construction companies hire specially trained lawyers whose sole function is to interpret them.

It is a long-established tradition that presidential succession is accomplished by killing the current leader, even if laws mandate that the president be elected. In the days before the Council of Twelve when Steel and Fire had elected presidents, it was not uncommon for the new president's first action upon being sworn in to be to kill his predecessor. There was no penalty for doing so.

[Fictions]

-It is illegal to die in a church
-If you are lent something or borrow something it is, for the time that you have it, legally yours.
-Goats may not be tied to a motorbike
-It is illegal for women to wear diamond jewelry in the rainy season
-It is legal to shoot someone if they enter your house at night
-Suicide is punishable by death
-It is treason to sing the national anthem in English

It should be noted that these laws are forgotten and even if people know about them they just ignore them.

[Crookfur]

Within Crookfur there are a few historical oddities:

It is illegal to tell vikings where to find the church silver

It is illgeal to give catholics verbal directions to Kirkhill.

Unless clothed appropriately it is illegal to swaer by any norse god

Anyone claiming to be a pope is subject to instant arrest with the boundaries of the borough of Conel

When selling elephants the Knight templar must be given first refusal

Akimbo usuage of any weapon is illegal without a license from your local templar/Hospitaler Priory

[Fatatatutti]

In Fatatatutti, all buses must be clearly marked 'Bus'. Taxis do not have to be marked but they are required to have surfboard racks on the roof. These laws are seldom enforced because the police spend most of their time fishing.

[Ikonja]

It is illegal to buy or sell marijuana, but possession in very small amounts is legal. So is consumption. It has to do with the drug damaging brain function, kind of like food preservatives.

It is illegal for minors to buy cigarettes. Because for children, they're not healthy.

Persons under 21 cannot purchase or posses alcohol, despite 16+ year-olds being the most willing consumers.

Wait, no. Sorry, that's not Ikonja. I was thinking of somewhere else.

[Augarundus]

In Augarundus, any crime is punishable legally by death. However, it is up to the local military governor to decide a punishment based on his/her own opinion. These are all brutal, and each of them ultimately results in death. Strangely, if the military government doesn't deal out the punishment, he himself may choose his own form of death legally (or none at all, in which case he would doubtlessly be murdered by higher-ranking officers).

Not bowing to the Chancellor/Kaiser is a crime punishable by decapitation.

Practicing religion is a crime punishable by immolation.

Most websites are illegal in Augarundus as is normal internet (citizens use Augarian-government websites). Oddly enough, google.com is banned, but http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi is accessible, providing the same information as google backward.

Microsoft Word is banned, and Works is used in its stead.

Despite a strong military inclination, Augarians are not permitted to personally own weaponry. If they do, they are forced to commit suicide using it.

[Diesta]

Wierd Diestan Laws

- It is illegal to ride a unicycle, pet a monkey, and eat a hot dog at the same time on any public property.

- It is illegal to eat another person, unless they give written and video consent.

- It is legal to eat your children before they reach the age of three.

- It is legal for children to eat their parents after the age of three.

- It is illegal for a fetus to drive.

- It is legal to set a house on fire, but the people inside must die on their front lawn.

- It is illegal to make a noise sounding remotely like an explosion around a dog.

- It is legal to avoid the draft. The government will kill you and your family on national television, but it's still legal.

[Gauntleted Fist]

Attempting to purchase a computer that has been stolen is punishable by life imprisonment in Gauntleted Fist.

[Allanea]

Microsoft Word is banned, and Works is used in its stead.

That's not weird. That's a crime against humanity. :

[Dunczton]

You can not keep a duck for a pet. You can not have more than 4 televisions. You can not give a tips higher than $15.you must wipe the seat after you use it or you will get a costly fine.

[Rejistania]

Microsoft Word is banned, and Works is used in its stead.

That's not weird. That's a crime against humanity. :

Not wanting to hijack the thread, I can make a discussion on word processing programs in General


I liked everything I read here so far. keep up the weirdness!

[The Jacobean States]

It is capital punishment if you insult the King
You get thrown in prison for defying a lord
You have your ears cut off for insulting an officer

[Anemos Major]

-It is considered upsetting to the state to watch films with gunshots in it with the sound on after 8:00, because it will attract the attention of the Metropolitan Police.
-Armoured vehicles can only be driven on Inquisition Road in the Central Citadel of Anemos Rei, the capital.
-You cannot look at the Chapel of Ilfir Erenthi I with one eye closed. This is considered offensive.
-You cannot replicate the Anemonian Star Crown. This is considered treason.
-Owning a firearm is illegal, but if you have served in the Army for over 4 years in an active unit, you are legally entitles to bear the Type 221 Army Standard Combat Sword. The same applies for the Navy (Type 222 Naval Ceremonial Sword) and the Air Force (Type 223 Air Force Combat Short Sword).

[Amn Voss]

::Wierd Laws of Amn'Voss::

-It is illegal to purchase a hippo from anyone under 4'7".
-It is illegal to inject candy into someone through use of an IV.
-It is illegal to stand on top of a television while balancing a dish of apple cider on your head.
-It is illegal to eat a baby elephant.
-It is illegal to ride a tortoise in public unless said tortoise is thirty years or older and has been living in the country for more than six years.
-It is illegal to sell herpes, AIDS, chlamydia, or gonorrhea; though if one is working as a pimp they may loan syphillis with interest.