Decree of the President of the Republic of Kavgaw No. 23 of 1980

**Decree of the President of the Republic of Kavgaw No. 23 of 1980** is a presidential decree issued in 1980 by Lemna Ukhaisam, then President of the Kavgawese Republic. After his death, the presidential order is still in place and cannot be revoked. It is often referred to as the 23 Rules. The plan states that "designated books that are deemed to have negative social and moral effects will be banned in Kavgaw, and those involved in them will be killed as soon as they are found." Violating persons or entities will be subject to sanctions.

In Japan, it has been managed by an organization called the Japan 23 Rules Promotion Association since 1992.

## Overview

In 1980, there was a manga in Japan with anti-democratic content (the name will be withheld here to avoid penalties), and the Lemna Ukhaisam government at the time called this book a "challenge to democracy". He asked all citizens to assassinate the author, a male manga artist, as a provocation. It also prohibited the sale and simple possession of the manga, and imposed sanctions on those who sold or traded related items, and enforced this on all citizens. This act was criticized as "a violation of freedom of expression", and some politicians and left-wing forces in Japan called for it to be abolished, but to no avail, and the manga artist was subject to numerous assassination attempts due to this presidential order.

In Kavgaw, if you are in possession of the film or video of the relevant movie and if you utter the title, you will be sentenced to imprisonment for 2 to 10 years for "serious challenge to national development and democracy" and "Promoting subversion of the state" or be subject to a fine of not less than 200,000 dinars and not more than 15 million dinars. Although sanctioned companies are not prohibited from operating in the Republic of Kavgaw, they are subject to slander from the public. Until 1993, the maximum penalty for violations was the death penalty, but in 1993 the maximum penalty was lowered to life imprisonment on the grounds that it was "undemocratic", and in 1999 it was reduced to 30 years' imprisonment. It was later lowered to 20 years in 2001 and 10 years in 2021.

However, sanctions against many companies allegedly involved in the film's production were rescinded in April 1982, and since 2001 some individuals have been exempted from extrajudicial killings due to benefits. Despite this, the creators have continued to die under suspicious circumstances since then. There are also rumors that the Free Movement of Kavgaw was involved in the production of the film.

In recent years, copies were destroyed in 2017. In 2021, Vopris Yasigh considered using extrajudicial measures to rescind the 23 Rules, but was unable to implement it. The Embassy of the Republic of Kavgaw in Japan has requested that the relevant works be removed from the Anime Encyclopedia, but this has not yet been achieved.

There is a false rumor that "Di Gi Charat was created by some Madhouse staff to exempt themselves from 23 Rules of Murder" or "Beat Takeshi created Takeshi's Castle in order to exclude himself from the 23 Rules Related extrajudicial murders".