The Gaijin Act

*This act belongs to a series of laws enacted by the Shogunate. To read the full list, go to the Aquilian Acts of 2021.*

## Summary

**The Gaijin Act**, or simply, ***The Foreigners Policy*** to the rest of the world, is an act passed by the Shogunate which forbids all foreigners from different factions to enter lands owned by the Shogunate. This is to prevent robbing and raiding incidents to occur in the nation, as the supply reserves in the country are poorly protected.

## History

### **Prehistory (Before the Server)**

Before the server was created, an old server was operated by Squid, in which the map was similar to that of Earth and was operated using the vanilla client of Minecraft. Alex626 was the Shogunate of Japan, and was given Andy after he requested to Squid that he doesn't wish to create a faction but wishes to join a faction. Afterward, Andy started to cause problems for Alex, mostly due to him owning a arsenal of TNT and planting them all over the island, this worries Alex as he wish to maintain the beauty of the island and having TNT placed all over could be time consuming and damaging to the environment.

Andy soon left Alex to create the Latin Cartel, situated in Central America. But will still cause problems for Alex from time to time with robbing and burning some of the buildings. The final straw came when Andy without Alex's knowledge, planted an estimated amount of 50-100 TNT mines all over northern Japan. These mines were almost invisible to the naked eye as some of these are set up using tripwire. One of the explosives that was set off was so large, it was heard all the way to Squid's faction in America.

This, along with the time consuming plan to get rid of the bombs before more are set off and the destruction of Japan prompted Alex to give out this message on the old faction Discord server:

***"After a few broken promises, the Japanese Shogunate has enacted the "No Plea" Law, which states that any Nanban begging for forgiveness or promises anything will be denies. The Nanban especially the Latins are considers to be untrustworthy and destructive towards our blessed land. We'll never trust them and we will take no mercy." -Alex626 (Izumo) 2/18/2021***

Although enforced, this didn't solve the problem and not long after Andy continued to further damage the island. This prompted Alex to go to war which eventually concluded to a stalemate with Alex leaning to the losing side due to the server map being corrupted.

### **Modern Version of the Act (Mid-Late 2021)**

In the early days of the current server, the newly formed Ukallik Shogunate has carried over the traditions of the Old Japanese Shogunate, and some would say to be a spiritual successor to the old country. As such, the "No Plea Policy" was carried over to the new server, and in order to comply with current events, the law had some changes; the changes are:

* The No Plea Policy has it's name changed to The Gaijin Act.
* Added new condition that all countries are forbidden to trade with The Ukallik Shogunate unless granted special permission from the Shogun.

This act would continue to be in effect until the collapse of the Ukallik Shogunate, however, the new version of the policy in the Neo Shogunate promoted open trade, and loosened the policy foreigners have to follow when entering the country.

## Trivia

* In the original statement that Alex626 made on Discord which enacted the Gaijin Act, Alex called the foreigners **"Nanban"** instead of **"Gaijin"**, which means in Japanese, **"Southern Barbarian"**. This was later corrected in later editions of the act.