Bujanski taboos

This is a list of taboos in the not-so-strict society of Bujan.

## Overview

Much of these restrictions and the harsh punishments that come with them were the result of anger from Wannaenid rule, so every person violating those taboos is immediately associated with the Wannaenids and their Terran lackeys. It also led to Bujanski society using forceful methods to remove those behaviours and attitudes from the whole country.

The modern Bujanski system of harsh punishments and corrections was ultimately from central Bujan, where the abusive Terrans who hurt and murdered locals were executed by the death gangs. Grieving from the pain and loss caused by the Terrans, the Bujanski sought to totally eliminate any behaviour or attitude that was related to them, creating a fair and convenient society free from anything considered "Terran".

If it meant torturing and killing the most stubborn, abominable, and reckless members of their own society, for the well-being of everyone else; so be it. If it meant forcing offenders to bear the shame of past criminals who did the same, and undo their own sins to survive, it shall be done.

### Rauna and Ronzo

See also: Jerdiskar society#Abominations

The more serious crimes in Bujanski law fall under two categories: *rauna* and *rōnzo*.

Rauna crimes are more harmful offenses that may lead to jail and/or penance. Rōnzo are abominations that may lead to the death of the offender.

This system of sins was derived from ancient Wonao traditions, where *rauny* were crimes that would lead to grudges, and *ronzy* were offenses so great, they would have become into grievances. Near the end of a person's life, he must write all remaining grudges on tablets, notes, or anything. He must renounce them one by one, and give any *ronzy* he wrote down to a temple as grievances to curse his enemies. According to Bujanski belief, this was meant to prevent his soul from being cursed after his death.

### Degradation

The taboos, dating back to ancient Wonao civilisation, were meant to prevent people from becoming more degraded: brutal, deceitful, abusive, corrupt. The horrors of the Old Hiranol resulted in their creation by the survivors and their king Motakol.

The depiction of Darroskei as "orcs" during Darros' wars against the surrounding nations led to orcs becoming a trope in Bujanski folklore and moralism. The "orc" represents a person who commits a taboo, degrading himself to his own doom and driving him to hurt innocent people; all because his wickedness was the only thing that gave him any joy and purpose.

### Denlotian punishments

In their desire for justice, revenge, and anger, the modern Bujanski also adopted many Denlotian-style laws and punishments. One of their beliefs was that their enemies (such as those who violate those taboos and were allowed to live) deserved no freedom, especially to punish Terrans who misused freedom as an excuse to commit more abuse.

The Denlotian belief in eliminating grudges was also another factor that motivated the Bujanski state to force offenders to compensate to any person they had harmed, and only granting their rights back when their victims declared forgiveness. It was also influenced by Wonao philosophy, which drives people into abandoning grudges to avoid punishments in the afterlife. They will not impose such punishments on people who live outside Bujan, but ban them from entry, and even detain them upon arrival.

## Wonao taboos

Wonao culture led to the usage of collective shaming in Bujanski society.

Traditionally, an entire family or neighborhood would be shamed for the actions of one offender, if said offended committed a great crime. The relatives of adult age were required to undergo some work to clear their crimes, or publicly confess that they did not support or commit the crimes.

* Cannibalism
* Eating the intestines of any animal - to Wonao people, it's considered similar to what their ancestors saw on the chaos before Motakol's reign, people murdered and then eaten by fanatics.
* Laughing at people in a disaster (like a flood or earthquake) - in ancient society, people like them were called "those who shoot at flood victims with arrows". They were usually executed, and their families shamed and ostracised.
* Fascism - in the Sixteenth Age, there were fascist movements influenced by the Pinogunian empire's militarism. Many of their members turned to violence as they believed that the Wonaos must become a master race in order to survive, going as far as killing other ethnicities.
	+ Not surprisingly, those terrorists targeted the minorities of Resovjant: Tuksharans, Namirians, Hiriwans, Daizhouvians, Visengans, Ragiseans, and Norsemen. This may be why members of those groups went to join the Royal Armed Forces against the Pinogunian empire's attacks, as they later found that the fascist groups were supported by the Pinogunian junta.
	+ Due to their betrayal of the Resovjantien monarchy and support for the invaders, ironically, those Wonao ultranationalist fanatics were expelled or executed for treason. This led to the belief in Wonao culture that "fascism is treason", and various bans against the ideology itself.
	+ This may be one reason why the Wonaos encouraged Bujanski Slavs to adopt their culture, to prevent similar fascists from emerging, either from the Wonaos or the Slavs. The Bujanski Slavs also found that the historical fascist Wonaos of the Sixteenth Age were disturbingly similar to online fanatics and fascists in imperial Darros, the same monsters who twisted tradition into imperialistic wars.

## Darroskei behaviours

The earlier prohibitions that survive in modern Bujan were part of the founding laws of the early Slavs. As descendants of Darroskei, their king Koschei created those laws to prevent his people from becoming as warlike as their former "motherland".

These are considered as traditional taboos in Bujanski Slavic culture.

* Absolutism
	+ This was one reason why the Bujanski Slavs retained the Wonao elective monarchy.
* Invading neighbours to create a Bujanid Empire
	+ Bujan only became an "empire" to imitate the Sarmelonids and be an equal of Vozolaz. It refused to invade the neighbouring Wonao countries, causing the Darroskei to accuse Bujan of being puppets and slaves of the Wonaos.
	+ Propaganda recovered from defeated Darroskei invaders depicted the invasion of Bujan as a "liberation" to make Bujan more Darroskei.
* Forcing children to become either housewives (girls) or soldiers (boys)
* Militarism - a traditional taboo in Bujanski culture. Bujan has a strong military and its people are taught to fight, but mostly for self defence.
* "Historical Bujanski lands", waging wars over a Bujanski minority
	+ Those were the same excuses the Darroskei Empire used to invade the other nations west and south of it. Possibly referring to the Slavonian Brotherhood or Darroskei minorities who turned to the empire out of a fear of neglect or assimilation.
* Theocracy
	+ Seen as an oppressive distortion of the Bujanski religion, Rodnovery.
	+ Darroskei Rodnovery had become corrupted by the time of Koschei, reduced to nothing but a vehicle of the emperors of Darros. Priests and devotees broke laws whenever they pleased in the name of power.
* Supremacism
	+ The Bujanid Slavs were given a choice to rejoin Darros and begin exterminating or enslaving the natives who helped them. They instead refused and cursed back at Darros, horrified by footage of Darroskei militarism and war crimes.
	+ Proverbs rejecting supremacism in favour of diplomacy with the Wonaos included: "To be remembered by a hundred friends, because you helped them earlier, is better than to be the lord of ten thousand slaves", and "Ten good deeds are greater than a thousand titles."
* Hatred of the native Wonao peoples
	+ Notably, Darroskei were so proud of their identity, that they even behaved in a chauvinist manner. On the other hand, they also depicted themselves as the greatest and most deserving of victims. It is seen in Bujan and many other countries as hypocrisy, a Terran sin!
* Calling Bujan a "motherland" or a "fatherland" - causing Darroskei to call Bujanid people "bastards", and justifying a losing war against them.
	+ In Bujanski culture the terms are nowadays associated with militarism, forcing people to die in useless wars of imperialism. There is even a myth in Bujan that depicts Darros as an ugly giantess who throws her children to Hell, and Bujan being one of the monster children who was taken away by a god to a safer place.
* Forcing people to speak only in Bujanski (or in Eosome)
	+ This was to avoid similar persecutions of other peoples, similar to what Darros did to any group that was not ethnic Darroskei.
	+ During independence, some accused people who wanted to ban Terran languages of violating this taboo and starting endless wars. Most Bujanski answered back that they wanted to erase imperialism. Those supporters of Terran languages, who claimed to be pacifists and humanists, were shunned for their alleged support for Wannaenid rule.
* "Brotherly nations", "fraternal peoples"
	+ This concept was one of the reasons why Darros waged imperialistic wars to conquer the whole continent. The massacres done by Darroskei imperial soldiers were the reason why this concept was banned in Bujan, yet Bujan still considers several nations as "brothers". One of the oldest "brothers" of Bujan, and perhaps the only one that really deserves it, is the neighbouring nation of Irajon for its close relations with Bujan.
	+ The attitude of bragging about "brotherly nations", and murdering people from a "brother" at the same time, was why Bujanski prefer actions as proof that someone is good, not relations or words.
	+ In Bujanski culture, even among siblings, "brotherhood" can only exist if the siblings become trustworthy friends. Otherwise, even a person born from the same mother, or a cousin, **CANNOT** be a real brother and may be expelled from the family.
	+ Ironically for a country that hates the concept of "brotherly nations", Bujan behaves like one to its surrounding Wonao neighbours for thousands of years, as one of their most reliable allies. Bujanski tend to treat Wonao people like brothers, listening to them closely and respecting them, making them an actual example of "brotherly nations" by how they behave!
	+ They also refused to hate Rukanians as their Darroskei ancestors did. Instead, Bujanski Slavs respected them as mentors who helped them return to the global community. In turn, the Rukanian crown allowed Zvestarid refugees to be settled in castle towns, where they were also trained to liberate and rebuild Bujan when the right time came.
	+ Their cooperation with Rukania, along with their hatred of Darros, led to Darroskei depicting Bujanski people as slaves or brainwashed by the Rukanian monarchy, along with other scapegoats like Wonao people and Vozonid nations as cliches in historical Darroskei propaganda.
	+ Angered by the Bujanski Slavs being more closer to Vozonids, Wonaos, and Rukanians instead of Russians, the Tyrskans cursed the Bujanski Slavs and accused them of being slaves and puppets of outsiders. Foreign influences became the reason why Tyrskans tortured Bujanski Slavs and kept them as slaves, and killed them as if they were vermin.
* "Great Darroskei culture", bragging about accomplishments
	+ Online, many Darroskei Internet users kept bragging about the history of their nation and historical accomplishments, to justify subjugating other peoples and forcing them to be Darroskei or be killed.
	+ Bujanski consider this as vain, because they prefer *personal* accomplishments as the worth of a person. Bragging about national accomplishments or ethnic descent as one's answer, as the Darroskei do, is seen as cowardice - but admitting about what you do, even as simple as working in a job, is honourable.
* "Traditional [Bujanski] values promoted as a trope or cliche, at state level"
	+ This taboo is defined as "to use traditional values for rhetoric or a reason to seize power". Examples shown in morality classes include attempts to ban movies, calls for banning entertainment, hatred of the Wonao natives, racism between Slavs and Wonaos, or closer ties with Darros.
	+ "Conservatism" and "traditional values" became associated with Darros, a traditional enemy of Bujan, due to their use by Darroskei to make their country a militant, isolated warmonger. The Bujanski Slavs intended to be the opposite of Darros, by seeking cooperation with the native Wonaos instead of seizing power and enslaving them.
	+ The usage of those terms and concepts were also associated with Terran warmongers, resulting in their prohibition in modern Bujan.
	+ Again, Bujanski prefer to keep traditional practices as their own hobbies and aesthetic, and to create a distinctive identity for their homeland. Avoidance of enemy behaviours and a high focus on justice and creativity are among the "traditional values" of that country, both among the Bujanski Slavs and the native Wonaos who influenced them. They consider it wrong to use their own traditions and cultural values to dominate others and seize power.
* Isolationism - Darroskei culture was more isolated, relying too much on "traditional values", militant theocracy, ultranationalism, and warrior culture to maintain its own identity. This eventually led to its emperors waging wars against the other Slavic states, dreaming vainly of "unifying" the continent as a Darroskei empire.
	+ To avoid this, the Bujanski Slavs sought to become equals of the Wonao natives. As co-rulers of Bujan alongside the Wonaos, they pursued closer relations with the neighbouring nations, resulting in the belief of "The Neighbourhood". They treat Wonao people, both in Bujan and in the other Wonao nations, as if they were their own brothers.

As a result of these insane, desperate behaviours, which Darroskei proudly considered as "the enduring Darroskei soul", people from Darros were banned from entering Bujan, and all relations with Darros were banned. The only Darroskei who were allowed in Bujan were either tourists or citizens of other nations, or defectors who renounced their Darroskei-ness to become Bujanski Slavs.

The Darroskei pride in using militarism and autocracy as "traditional values" led to the Bujanski Slavs regarding it as a sin: yet even as the Darroskei whine online that Bujan will descend into savagery if they reject Darroskei traditions, the Bujanski answered back that they already had traditions of their own.

## Terran behaviours

Although they are associated with the mad fanatics of the Terran peoples, Bujanski and others who also commit such acts in Bujan are harshly punished.

### Ban on government positions

No Terran is allowed to have any government position in Bujan. Not even Rodnovers of Terran descent are allowed to have any form of government position, as all Terrans of all or no faith are seen as corrupt by nature. However, after July 1892, this law was changed to allow Terrans born in Bujan to vote in local elections, but not elections related to Prime Ministers, Supreme Volkhovs, or kings.

There were also a few exceptional Terrans who were loyal and trustworthy enough to be allowed into the government, such as a Terran pastor who led a Free North revolt for Bujan, and was elected as a provincial governor.

### Ideologies

A number of behaviours, actions, and attitudes are banned in Bujan because of their association with the Terran aristocracy and its hypocritical militarism. These range from fascism, communism, corporatism, and slogans supporting Terran empires, to even simple attitudes like whataboutism, forced religious conversion, sociopathy, contrarianism, and Internet trolling.

In fact, all Bujanski children MUST attend morality classes to prevent themselves from thinking and behaving like Terrans, out of fear that behaving in a Terran manner will make them more hateful and corrupt.

### Symbols

A number of behaviours and images are banned in modern Bujan as symbols of Terra and other enemies who waged wars against the kingdom:

* Tyrskan and Qyuvian symbols, slogans, and flags - now only shown in museums, historical depictions, alternate history, and educational media.
* Hammer and sickles - Tyrskan religious symbol, also used by Serpentians
* Red five pointed star - Tyrskan nationalist symbol, also used by Serpentians
* Swastikas (except those strictly restricted for religious use)
	+ If the Bujanski see a "Terran swastika", that is, one that glorifies hate or a death threat, it is nowadays burned or erased. They also knew fascist flags, differentiated from religious swastikas, and burn them on sight.
* the figure-8 of Tyrska, its lightning variant, and the Z symbol - symbols of invaders
* the words "hukol" or "khol" - as slurs directed towards any peoples seen as disobedient to Tyrskan rule, including Bujanski Slavs.
	+ Ukrainians and Baltics were among the most hated people in Tyrska, resulting in the slur being applied to anyone from Eastern Europe by extension, who refused to accept Tyrskan rule.
	+ Tyrskans hated Bujanski Slavs due to their different religion and culture. Their comparison of the Bujanski to Ukrainians led to the Bujanski respecting Rukania more, due to Rukanian culture being very similar to Ukraine. Resistance members even depicted Rukania as "the star of the west".
* raising the right hand like a spear - associated with "spider worshippers" who murder the innocent and wage war against Bujan over racial supremacism
* "family values", "traditional values" - nowadays associated with militarism
* Usage of women and children in propaganda, tropes involving women and children as "treasures" - associated with militarism
* "Bujan First", "Zvesta First" - slogans associated with Salvationist traitors, ironically
	+ "Those who yell, 'Bujan First!', never put Bujan first, but themselves as slaves of foreign tyrants."
* The terms "motherland", "fatherland", "Rodina" (especially when applied to Bujan) - as a result, Tyrskans denounced the natives as "bastards", further justify attempted extermination of native people.
* Hatred of specific backgrounds - which may suggest possible loyalty to either Tyrska or the Q Theocracy and treason against Bujan. For example:
	+ Hatred towards the Baltics, Central Asian countries (like Kazakhstan), Caucasus countries, Poland, Finland, and Ukraine - possibly Tyrskan, because these nations were hated in Tyrskan society.
		- On independence, 11,234 Tyrskans and collaborators were imprisoned and publicly shamed, for attacking Bujanski Slavs. Their jail sentence was extended to four months because those criminals compared Bujanski Slavs to those disliked countries, especially Ukrainians, for rejecting Tyrskan supremacism.
		- Other Tyrskans who were arrested and punished for other forms of racism, especially towards Wonaos and other Bujanski ethnicities, numbered around 9,567. Of these, 8,801 Tyrskans had their sentences extended for severe bigotry, specifically for hatred of both Bujanski and Wonao peoples.
	+ Hatred towards darker skin - which may suggest loyalty to the Qyuvian Theocracy.
		- On independence, around 8,702 Maeranoi and traitors were jailed and publicly shamed for racist conduct. The majority of them especially targetted Wonao people.
	+ Hatred towards lighter skin - although this practice was limited to several Serpentian groups, hatred towards Bujanski Slavs was widespread during Wannaenid occupation, but for other reasons (such as religion, rejection of communism or racism).
		- 4,323 Maeranoi and traitors were punished for other forms of racism, notoriously towards Bujanski Slavs over their ethnic descent or skin colour.
		- Roughly 3,234 offenders had a combined count of four months for hatred towards both Bujanski Slavs and Wonaos. 643 offenders had their sentences extended to six or eight months for severe extremism and bigotry.
	+ The traditional punishment for such crimes is two months of prison, and one or two months of penance depending on the offender's personal conduct in prison.

### Debatable symbols

Although they are generally frowned upon in modern Bujan, there are ongoing disputes on whether can these avoid being associated with the Terran tyrants or not.

* Terran languages, like English and Russian - as the Tyrskans and Qyuvians forced the natives to use those languages, many parts of Bujan discourage using them.
	+ Foreigners who did not understand Bujanski had to wear a headpiece that translates all spoken dialogue to the wearers' language.
	+ In Bujanski pop culture works, villains tend to speak in either Russian or (worse) English. English was also depicted as the language of demons and evil sorcerers.
	+ In the 1950s, only dozens of towns and villages permitted regular classes in English and Russian, mostly due to ethnic Terrans. Some parts of Bujan began suggesting that the two languages do not need to be stereotyped as "languages of hate, war, and imperialism".
* Fandoms, any work that is popular with Terran people - some Bujanski called for a ban on fandoms due to various fanbases among Terrans and Salvationists being abusive and toxic, or making up most "bloky" (users who block others over pointless reasons), making them enemies of Bujanski society.
	+ Some fans kept proving to Bujanski society that blocking was not a requirement to be a fan of certain media.

## Stereotypical Terran behaviours

Many of them tend to be seen as sadistic, abusive, or glorifying their regimes or attacks against Bujanski people.

### Both Terrans

* Demanding the freedom to hurt and kill Bujanski and Wonao people.
* Spending so much time online.
* Rude behaviour online.
* Death threats online.
* Calling a Bujanski or a Wonao an "idiot", or other names, in an online comment.
* Threatening to destroy Bujan or any nearby country with nuclear bombs. This was a very common behaviour among Terran people, especially online users.
* "Misuse of freedom":
	+ "freedom of speech" - became an excuse to "utter every curse and death threat under the sun"
	+ "freedom of association" - became used by Maeranoi to "shun the natives, any who make a mistake, and expect others to coexist with them"

### Qyuvians

The Qyuvians developed those behaviours due to their lack of opportunity as impoverished rurals, worsened by the collapse of America.

* Obsession with family values, religion, elderly people, suburbs
* Hatred of bright colours
* Abuse of children, paradoxically seen by them as "discipline"
* Forcing children to pray correctly and then threatening to beat, kill, or starve children
* Hatred of homeless and poor people
* Avoidance of modern medicine, especially vaccines
	+ The result of poverty and misinformation causing many people to fall prey to Qyuvian influence.
* Hatred of women, and hatred of treating women fairly
* Telling people to "get over it" when they mourn over historical atrocities and disasters - due to a fear that compensation to victims may lead to expulsion or being killed by victims
* Opposition to compensation
* Opposition to welfare or charity
* Corporatism
* "Personal responsibility", as an excuse to abuse young people or force them to suffer
* Making others suffer to learn values or convert people to the Q Church
* "Life's not fair, deal with it!"
	+ In the July massacres, people who uttered those words were either killed, or became the only "slaves" in Bujan as a punishment. They were accused of denying the existence of rights in general, by insisting that *everything* in life must be unfai. So the Bujanski mocked them by removing the offenders' rights and dignity, punishing them with their own words and beliefs!
* Calling Bujanski people "woke"
	+ The main reasons include refusal to practice Christianity, usage of native languages, protecting poor people and the homeless, not practicing Qyuvian culture, and being too direct (instead of refusing to acknowledge a crime to appease Terrans).
	+ Due to this and the Qyuvian insistence on rudeness or violence, the word "woke" became a slur towards Bujanski, both Slavs and Wonaos, synonymous with "heathen" or "pagan". Later, some Qyuvian prisoners of war tried to explain that the "woke" slur referred to their protection towards weaker people and opposition to family values. The Bujanski answered back that they already had families, though they did not force their own people to start families.
* Fascism
	+ Same reason as the Wonao hatred of fascists as traitors and war criminals. With murderers professing fascism to kill Bujanski people, it became another good reason for the Bujanski to kill any fascist they see.
* Bullying
	+ Encouraged as a method to raise brutal soldiers and fanatics. It was originally encouraged, even as a school subject in Qyuvian areas, to raise all boys to become soldiers in its militarised culture.
	+ They did not care if their own families would die as long as they were powerful, putting years of "family values", "traditional values", and "thinking of the children" to waste.
* "Troll culture"
	+ The result of various populist politicians who thought they were using ironic humour, and calling threats to kill and murder as "freedom of speech".
	+ Many young male Qyuvians were encouraged to use the Internet as a platform, to brag about their empire, bully others, and fight online. If they were unable to work or fight, angering people with stupid comments was the most some Qyuvians were able to do in life at all.
	+ Harrassment was considered a part of masculinity in Qyuvian culture, to make them prove that they were warriors. Many young Qyuvians considered betrayal and cheating to be a way to make themselves powerful enough to deserve any manner of respect, while the honourable conduct they boasted about was seen as weakness.
	+ Therefore, for their hateful comments, Internet trolls are considered combatants during the revolution, making it very acceptable to murder people because they were Internet trolls.
* Encouragement of self-harm and suicide
	+ Qyuvians were notorious for their love of extremism, torture, and bragging over cruel acts. This was derived from "troll culture" and Qyuvian obsession with aggression and power.
	+ Their love of self-destruction was from their obsession with desecrating freedom to commit worse acts.
* Theocracy
	+ Because many Maeranoi were Qyuvians who supported their theocratic regime, and justified their persecution of the natives for their church, "theocracy" is forever associated with these tyrants.
	+ Many of the Maeranoi also supported a theocracy, but instead to enforce a Terran religion known as "Christianity". Because they waged war against the people of Bujan and opposed the natives' Independence and cultures, their religion was also rejected, associated with the militants and the Qyuvians. They even thought, erroneously, that "all Christians are violent militants who hate nonbelievers and are obsessed with war"; forgetting that some Christians also supported the natives and rejected supremacist theocracy in favour of cooperation.
	+ This was why the Free North exists, to protest loyalist Terrans and allow them to secretly practice their faith away from the public and avoid suspicion. In return, the few Christians in Bujan no longer advocated theocracy, knowing that modern Bujanski law strictly bans any form of theocracy. It was left alone, both for their loyalty to Bujan and because Bujanski were taught that the Free North's religion ensured those Terrans will never again betray the natives.
	+ Although Bujan has a state religion (Rodnovery, or Slavic paganism), and religious customs and laws permeate every aspect of life in Bujan, "theocracy" is seen in Bujan as "killing and torturing people to force them to practice a certain religion, and waging wars to forcibly convert people". Therefore, "theocracy" is seen as "warmongering": Rodnover theocrats are also accused of being Tyrskans or Salvationist traitors.
	+ Anyone supporting theocracy, or calling for Bujan to become a theocracy, is considered a criminal, and is quickly arrested as a traitor. The few Rodnover theocrats were also punished on charges of waging war against the government.

### Minor Qyuvian

* Lighting fireworks or bonfires too close to a forest
	+ This custom was associated with national celebrations and the gender of a newborn child, especially if the child was a boy.
* Hatred of the colour pink
	+ Associated with being against "masculinity".

### Tyrskan

Many of those behaviours were often found among middle-aged nationalists and fanatics, and popularised among young Tyrskan adults and teenagers as a "patriotic duty" and amusement. According to research, they were developed during the empires before Tyrska, especially for the impoverished ancestors to cope with a bleak life.

It led Bujanski to view Tyrskans as a country of beggars and criminals. Some went mad from anger, even developing a hatred of the poor from associating all poverty with Tyrskan poverty, but the Bujanski also punished them.

* Whataboutism - refusal to admit you are wrong. Bujanski suspect that every whataboutist does not want to help the victims they begged about, but to continue their crimes.
	+ Even worse is that they keep begging and screaming, demanding everyone stop criticising them, to allow them to continue their crimes.
		- For example: X brings up Tyrskan war crimes. Y bring up some murder or atrocity by Zvesta before Wannaenid rule, because (according to investigations) he feels threatened by even one criticising comment against Tyrska, his Motherland. Because his attitude is seen as wanting to continue oppressing the natives, Y is sentenced to death as if he is a soldier.
		- To avoid whataboutism: Y answers why are the war crimes committed ("the Zvestarids are heathen scum, so we must force them to bow to us"), and then brings up Zvestarid crimes. Because Y still supports the enemies of Bujan, he may still be killed.
	+ Most Bujanski believe that whataboutists should be killed on sight, because their denial of their enemies' actions is considered as supporting those same actions. In a 1956 AT poll, 87% of its respondents in Bujan claimed that murdering a whataboutist was the right thing to do, as the whataboutist is supporting the enemies of their country.
		- According to investigations of whataboutists arrested or killed around independence and the July massacres, their typical backgrounds were: mostly Terran (Tyrskan, followed by Serpentian), middle-aged, poor to middle class, and poorly-educated. A quarter of them were young adults, mostly males.
		- Many of them also followed "conspiracy theorists" and "alternative/truth media", the latter being the names of state-run media by the Tyrskan colonial authorities.
	+ However, if a user straightforwardly answers, and *then* brings up the other issue, it is not whataboutism.
* "Vranjo" - white lies in general, especially when spammed online
	+ Because Tyrskans and other Terrans often sent repetitive topics, "waves of information" in an unorganised and desperate manner, their topics were banned from public discussion except in some television programmes and exhibitions.
	+ According to investigations, there were various reasons why Tyrskans spammed propaganda: emulation of Soviet practices, desperation, fear, arrogance, supremacism, and being paid to do that as a job. They also thought that the more they spam, the more they could influence society to obey them, even if the actual number of posters was less than the messages sent.
* "Maskirova" - a culture of lying, bribes, information warfare to influence everyone to accept and submit to Tyrskan domination.
	+ According to investigations, Tyrskan *maskirova* was a product of battlefield trickery used by imperial governments, later applied in social life as propaganda, and then "plastered everywhere like corpses of rats and posters of scams". It was also fuelled by poverty and secret police groups, driving people to bribery and lies.
	+ Some noticed that the Bujanski (like the Darroskei) engage in their own form of *maskirova* or *vranjo*. This is because they promote certain values (like responsibility, conservatism, and appreciation) without using the words for those values. The avoidance of their real names was due to their traumatic association with colonial oppressors, who used those words in their propaganda against Bujanski people.
	+ Eventually it led to Terrans accusing Bujanski people of hypocrisy over trauma, and more attempts to wage war on ethnic Bujanski to enslave them. To avoid this, Bujanski artists and activists tend to be more subtle when bringing up the topic of hypocrisy: they explained that the Terrans might point it out and commit terrorism and war against the state!
* Treating disasters and tortures of native people as a joke, and then beg everyone to accept their right to hate and kill the natives.
	+ This was a result of humour to cope with poverty, and many years of state propaganda.
	+ It also applies to the Tyrskan practice of displaying the graves of enemies as their only answer, either to beg for the Bujanski to surrender, or to brag of their empire.
* Militarism - subjecting younger children to be obsessed with the military, and then calling it "patriotism"
* Smearing the Z-symbol, the Tyrskan spider symbol, or kolovrat everywhere.
	+ Those were symbols used by Tyrska, especially military units and hypernationalist maniacs.
* Imperialism - notoriously, they want Tyrska to be an empire to dominate the natives. They get very angry if a Bujanski says any form of ill comment against Tyrska or its "Motherland cult".
	+ Their imperialism was the result of Tyrska emerging from a global collapse. In their world, many countries were affected, *both* Russia and America.
	+ Hence them also referring to \*any\* depiction of them failing or any criticism as "propaganda", even if it actually happened.
* Demanding the use of Terran languages in official settings, as co-official languages of Bujan. And then hatred of the native cultures.
	+ Because Tyrskan culture was based on an ultranationalist movement from Russia, they inevitably also see anyone who does not use or support their language as their enemy.
* Hatred of the native Bujanski and Wonaos.
* Depicting Bujanski people as barbarians, pigs, and fascists; and racist stereotypes of Wonaos as savages and cannibals.
* "Motherlandism", Tyrskan "patriotism", the Motherland cult - in practice, Tyrskan "motherlandism" or "rodinjestvo", involves:
	+ Strict conservatism
	+ Excessive devotion and worship to the ruler (President of Tyrska)
	+ Obsession with the military
	+ Racism and harrassment towards anyone who is not an ethnic Tyrskan
	+ Overspending on the military and elites
	+ Keeping the other parts of the country poor, to drive them to work
	+ Using government-run news programmes to stir the people to war
	+ A constant state of war to keep all inhabitants in line
	+ Constantly praising Tyrska, never allowing any criticism, chauvinism
	+ Seeing any form of criticism, anger at Tyrskans, or distrust as persecution, expecting Tyrskans to be loved and treated like kings no matter how much they kill
	+ Whataboutism, mostly to make others allow the Tyrskans to do everything they want, including killing natives and waging useless wars
	+ Waging wars of extermination to replace existing peoples with ethnic Tyrskans
	+ Irredentism to expand Tyrska into an empire, false claims of "Tyrskan historical lands"
	+ Promotion of torture and degradation
	+ Glorifying war crimes (like torturing civilians) every day, whether with words, bullying, or Internet comments
	+ Creating large families that are forced in line by abusive parents
	+ Hatred of anything foreign
	+ Hatred of foreigners
	+ Not allowing foreigners to explain
	+ Cultural isolation
	+ Schadenfreude, sadism
	+ Constant usage of slurs
* Spitting on people
	+ A very common habit among Tyrskans, all the way to Internet memes.
	+ The most notorious punishment for one who spits on another person was simply execution. Bujanski who did the same were crippled, with their arms chopped off, and being locked in a prison: however, anyone can avoid this grisly fate if they confessed that they did it by accident.
* Hacking as cyberwarfare
	+ Often used by the Tyrskan colonial authorities to disrupt technology and spread their propaganda.
	+ Also practiced by the Qyuvian rulers.
	+ For their association with the Terrans, hacking and cyberwarfare are banned in modern Bujan. However, the government of Bujan instead uses defensive methods against any manner of cyberwarfare.

### Minor Tyrskan

* Naming a public place as a number.
	+ For example: "School No. 1", "Prison No. 45", etc.
	+ However, stylistic names with numbers are allowed, like "the One", "School Toss-46", "3", and "46 Waves".
* Holding a portrait at chest or belly level
	+ Associated with "Victory Day parades", shown all over Bujan during colonial times to commemorate Soviet victories. The Bujanski consider the Soviets as utterly foreign.
	+ Tyrskans hold portaits and march like that to represent their ancestors who fought in wars dating back to centuries ago, or who took part in the conquest of Bujan. Celebrating the fall of Bujan, and the dating of the parades, caused Bujanski to associate the parade and anything Soviet with colonialism.
	+ If any Bujanski were to hold a portrait, they must hold it high, like a spear or a banner with the portrait on a pole. They usually do that in funerals, not national holidays.
* Dressing children in military uniforms, surrounding them in tanks and military paraphernalia.
	+ Bujanski consider this to be death-worship, in light of the abusive conditions in the Tyrskan armed forces and a high casualty rate from Tyrskan imperial expeditions. Yet many Tyrskans, including online fanatics, look forward to dying in battle.
* Hatred against countries near Tyrska and Zetros, or peoples that were colonised by historical Russian empires
* Wanting to kill or attack peoples formerly ruled or colonised by Russian empires
* Hatred of rainbows
	+ Rainbows were seen in Tyrska as an American symbol. While Zetrosians do not mind natural rainbows, Tyrskans went as far as shoot at rainbows if they appeared in the sky.
* Hatred of the colour pink
	+ Also seen in Tyrska as an American symbol.
* Squatting in public
	+ Bujanski are instructed to sit on the floor, sit on an object, or stand. This may be one reason why chairs and benches are everywhere in Bujan.
	+ In some provinces and districts, people who squatted on the floor were beaten with rattan canes or wooden rods.
* Usage of "a" (Tyrskan: а) or Bujanski "au", to mean "and", especially when asking about a serious topic.
	+ Considered by most Bujanski as "whataboutism", a common cultural practice in Tyrska, and therefore support for Tyrskan war crimes. Bujanski do not use the word "and" to begin any asking back. They *must* answer directly before they can ask back.

Tyrskan culture seemed similar to Darroskei culture, except it followed a different religion and was more "concrete".

### Serpentians

"Serpentian" was a term used for Terrans from Serpent cultures, or American cultures that focused more on far-left ideologies instead of the Q Theocracy's conservative militarism. They were also known as "other enders" for being the opposite of the Q Church in terms of ideology.

Most of them were also brought to Bujan by the Wannaenids, selected among the worst Internet users and militants and forced to fend for themselves. Their backgrounds consisted of marginalised and poorer people in their homelands, and their frustrations with poverty and abuse drove them to a fanatical attitude. Some were members of the Serpents, a later militant group waging war against the Q Theocracy and Tyrskan authorities.

They preferred the names "Newlander" or "Balenorian", for their proposed republic. Many of them were brought here due to extreme comments in social media, so nearly all of them tended to be social media users.

* Calling any mass killings of Bujanski people as "revolution", "liberation", or "resistance"
	+ It led to modern Bujan continuing the Zvestarid ban on communism. Communism and anything Soviet became associated with the Tyrskans and the Serpentians.
	+ As they were originally Americans, the Serpentians claimed that "no revolution or social change was *ever* peaceful". They also used this belief to justify waging war against the Bujanski and Wonaos, and glorifying random murders and massacres of the locals.
	+ Like their Soviet-Russian role models, Serpentians tended to denounce the natives in repetitive, desperate terms, like "fascist". Their only reason for falsely accusing Bujanski and Wonaos of fascism was the latter's refusal to accept Soviet-ness.
* Soviet symbols - Bujanski noted the difference between how Serpentians and Tyrskans used Soviet and Russian symbols.
	+ Serpentians dressed up in those symbols and paint brighter colours. They are nothing more than symbols to dress themselves in, and to debate for weeks online about Soviet and communist values. The main reason for Soviet-ising themselves was out of hatred towards the Americas where they came from, seeing it as the opposite and out of love of using symbols and disorder to get what they wanted.
	+ Their emulation of Soviet society also caused them to use the Russian language, allowing them to understand what the Tyrskans were saying. They also tried to invite Tyrskans to join their "revolution" as "the real Soviets", but their American background and rejection of imperialism led to the Tyrskan rulers declaring war on them.
	+ Tyrskans, on the other hand, not only treat anything Soviet with a religious devotion, but also use it to make Bujan more "Russian". This was why they were angry with the Serpentians for refusing to be totally Russianised. They also hated Serpentians,
	+ because they did not even follow Russian traditions or culture properly, but only stereotypical depictions of the Soviet Union.
* A constant state of war to enforce Serpentian beliefs, until the Serpentians become the rulers of Bujan or the region
	+ And then "expanding the revolution" by taking over neighbouring states, and killing the natives
* Telling Bujanski people to surrender, stop revolting against Wannaenid or Terran rule
	+ Some Serpentians bragged to the Bujanski, using memes and statistics, to urge them to surrender to Terran rule.
	+ They also kept claiming "we are the future", "give up", "accept living with us", "get over it" - it eventually led to the hatred of these phrases during independence and even greater cruelty to internet users who hated Bujanski independence.
* Hatred and racism against Bujanski Slavs, and also the native Wonaos
	+ The death gangs of central Bujan became the main reason why Serpentians hated Bujanski Slavs, and went as far as call for the extermination of the Bujanski to establish their communist state.
	+ The Serpentian hatred of the Wonaos was from most Wonaos stubbornly rejecting communism in general, causing the Serpentians to bring up historical fascists in Resovjant as a reason for war against ethnic Wonaos.
* Telling people to move on - associated with abusive and selfish people who tell this to the Bujanski often
	+ Many Serpentians think like that because they came from poorer or abusive societies. They had to keep moving on, even refusing to resolve grudges and grievances below those that affect all of society. They did so because staying in one place meant less food and worse conditions there, and focusing on one problem could distract them from their causes (like eliminating abusive attitudes in a society)
	+ Their tendency to throw aside friends over trivial errors and misunderstandings made them hated in Bujanski society, driving the revolutionaries closer to seeking to end all grudges. That attitude became what Bujanski considered as "moving on", to cheat and take advantage of people rather than actually make friends.
	+ A person who keeps telling people to "let it go" and "move on" is hated in Bujanski society as a "muvannik". People will think of him as a fraud and a cheater, and ensure he remains an outcast as a punishment for exploiting people.
* Blocking people for trivial or absurd reasons (like annoying behaviour)
	+ The attitude of simply blocking anyone was fuelled from their practice of moving on, their poor mental health, and their self-centred attitude. Bujanski are less likely to block people over a small mistake or something wrong they did, but they instead ask.
	+ Many Maeranoi were put to death by the death gangs for insulting or (without a valid reason) blocking other online users, as they instantly became enemies of society. This was especially because Serpentians and Salvationists also mass-blocked native Internet users with bot programmes, mostly out of spite, leading to war and hatred against the same Internet userbase.
	+ In fact, during July, many Bujanski would claim that they would kill any friend who suddenly blocked them, accusing them of cheating. This also led to the creation of moral classes in Bujan to stop further violence from tearing Bujanski society apart.
* Mental health as a reason for harmful behaviour
	+ The self-centred attitude of the Serpentians was the result of their abusive background and poor mental health. They did not care who they hurt unless if it's within their own community or supposedly violated their own cause. They went as far as become selfish and rude to preserve what little sanity they had. This was very common among Maeranoi adolescents, who resorted to fanatical, abusive behaviour to survive.
	+ Because very few people supported and helped them in their homeworlds, the Serpentians demanded and craved attention. It did not matter if they were not welcomed for their aggressive behaviour, so long as people were forced to submit to them.
	+ On the other hand, the dysfunctional behaviour and thinking in many Serpentians became a big reason for the Bujanski government to invest in mental healthcare. This resulted in the so-called "judicial-medical complex", which involves Internet moderators and court judges ensuring that every client sees a doctor for emotional issues. For all of their hatred of Terrans, the people of Bujan wanted to ensure that the high rate of mental problems will no longer exist in their country, so they were willing to ensure that any Terran who remained has to be treated and helped.
* "Self love" as an excuse to be rude, demanding the right to be rude
* "Teenagerism", stereotypical Maeranoi teenage behaviours that are seen as selfish or dysfunctional, like bans, drama, quarrels, bullying.
	+ Because so many of the people who hurt others for their own mental health were Maeranoi teenagers, this led to a nationwide distrust and fear of *all* teenagers in general throughout the July purges. Children throughout Bujan feared their thirteenth birthday, because they would end up as "teenagers" who would hurt others over comfort.
	+ Provinces that protected Terrans instead set up programmes to integrate youngsters who suffer from mental, emotional, and psychological issues. They allowed anyone, Bujanski or Terran, to receive any treatment.
* "No one owes you an explanation"
* Not telling a person being punished on what they must do
* Expecting punished people to sit, do nothing, and think. Telling enemies to think of their own actions.
	+ This was the impression Bujanski had from the Maeranoi who tormented and hurt them. The Maeranoi seem to enjoy making others suffer to lash out their own pain and heal themselves, making them look more like sadists.
* Allowing people to have the right to coexist with you, even if they shunned you and moved on.
	+ This was one reason why Bujanski hated Serpentians. The Serpentians would simply shun people even if they were sorry, expecting plenty of new people out there to replace a lost friend. This was the very thing the Bujanski wanted to stop, to deny them their beloved "opportunity" to force them to answer for everything wrong they had done.
	+ But in the Bujanski Revolution, they were isolated from the allies as some avoided the fighting to survive. They were eventually forced to confront with the people whom they had hurt before, to apologise to each other and reconcile.
	+ In the July massacres, many Bujanski were filled with rage. One shooting in northwestern Bujan by one Terran who was angry over losing online blocks sparked fury across the whole of Bujan. Some fanatics claimed that the shooter being Terran was an example of why they would rather force penance instead of "let go and move on", declaring that they will never coexist with people who shunned them.
	+ In fact, in several polls conducted from 1892-1904, around 94% of their respondents answered that they would kill a former friend who abruptly blocked them online.
		- As more people realised the horrors of the July killings, the amount of users supporting "killing people for blocking me" dropped, and was replaced with "make them apologise to their victims".
* (Maeranoi) "cancel culture" and so called "consequences", instead of Bujanski penance
	+ The Maeranoi practice a form of shunning called "cancel culture" by its opponents. Their ancestors practiced it either by a simple refusal, or escalated it to harrassment instead of criticism. Later, the Qyuvians and Serpentians elevated it to mob violence because it became into a sport.
	+ Because "cancelling" in Serpentian culture was less to do with punishing actual offenders and simply bullying, Bujanski developed the attitude of integrating outcasts and shunned people. If the people being shunned had committed certain forgivable crimes, they can be trusted by Bujanski again AFTER completing penance.
	+ Bujanski answered back that they also have their own "cancel culture", in mockery of the Terrans who either boasted or feared *their* cancel culture. Bujanski "cancel culture" is just penance and ostracism of offenders who had not committed crimes worthy of death.
		- Instead of forcing an offender to move on, this form of "cancel culture" forces offenders to serve their victims in order to be forgiven, paying the full costs of their offense in money or work. In fact, telling people to "move on" is also a taboo in Bujan due to its association with Terran offenders and colonisers.
* "Protching"
	+ A strange but hurtful practice in which artists glorify child abuse and waste their lives praising it. This is considered the same as Qyuvians starving their children to death over prayers, or Maizefolk killing children as sacrifices to their gods.
		- Some protchers, for example, also depicted characters as Maizefolk, murdering children who smiled while they were cut to pieces in altars to Archonius, the Maizefolk's main god. Such sadistic acts had traumatised many Serpentians.
	+ Not surprisingly, even Bujanski admit that the expulsion of protchers was one of the few correct things Serpentians did. However, if someone can show proof that they were wrongfully mistaken for a protcher, they may be forgiven by the Bujanski. The acceptance of people being wrongfully accused over a mistake was one of the reasons why the Serpentians fought against the revolution.
		- However, some defectors were caught lying about not being involved in "protching", as they were found to continue making said art. Such frauds, like all frauds before them, were dragged out and shot.

### Minor Serpentian

* "Fannish" behaviour
	+ In spite of their emulation of Soviet aesthetics and militarism, the Serpentians were obsessive fans of various movies and cartoons; much to the annoyance of the Tyrskans.
	+ Those obsessive behaviours included fights and harrassment between thousands of those fans. The reasons included poor writing, shipping, and a theory being disproven. Was it no better than how the fanatical lovers of the Broken Plates show murdered the show's makers millennia ago?
* Downvotes
	+ A lot of Terrans downvote out of spite, not due to the poor quality of a work. This led to the ban on downvotes in nearly all modern Bujanski websites.
* The ban on downvotes led to riots and uprisings by some Terrans, who were angry that their freedoms were taken away as a collective punishment.

## "Salvationism"

Salvationism was the nationalist, militarist cult of the Salvation Party, a Terran-aligned political party that influenced Zvestarid policy and the collapse of their country to Wannaenid rule. For being traitors against Bujan and trying to kill off their own people, the Salvationists are cursed to oblivion, and every supporter punished as a war criminal.

These behaviours are now banned in Bujan for their association with Salvationism:

### Treason:

* Militarism
	+ The Bujanski still keep their Royal Armed Forces, but are not allowed to put too much praise on it. They saw it only as a last resort to various enemies that "cannot be reasoned with" or "are too dangerous enough that they chose to fight us".
* Glorifying the Church of Q, Tyrskan churches, Terran religions, Terran empires (such as America and Russia)
* Glorifying hostile, anti-Bujanski views (like fascism, communism, racism, theocracy)
* Advocating anti-Bujanski ideologies
* Wanting to annex Bujan as part of a hostile country
* Wanting Bujan to become more American
	+ That is, Maeranoi, or closely related to whatever the Church of Q and the Serpents preached. They wanted to force Bujan to become more "American".
	+ The Qyuvians demanded the Bujanski to become Americans like them, out of hatred towards anything against their theocracy.
* Wanting Bujan to become more Russian
	+ Especially Tyrskan, which tried to force the Bujanski to become more "Russian" or "Soviet".
	+ Tyrskans practice a militaristic form of Russian ultranationalism, demanding all Slavs (including Bujanski) to become like them. They consider themselves as "the true Russians", claimants of several historical empires. They even regarded other people from Russian, and other ethnic Russians, to be heretics who needed to be forcibly "civilised", or subjugated to Tyrskan rule.
* Calling for Bujan to become a theocracy, even if it is for a Rodnover theocracy - any theocracy is an abomination to Bujanski people
* Racial supremacism (Slavic, Wonao, etc. - just *any* supremacism), racism
* Calling for Bujan to become an ethnostate
* Ultranationalism
* Calling for the extinction, death, or killings of Bujanski or Wonao peoples
* Glorifying "collateral damage", war crimes done by "liberation movements", and demanding everyone to celebrate same killings
	+ One example: the Serpentians. Later, the Anti-Terran Action and some members of the Bujanski revolutionaries. *Some*, to ensure that no one may attack the whole revolution and risk usurping Bujan into a Terran-ruled dystopia again.
* Contrarianism
* Imperialism
* Calling for Bujan to be an empire

### Major offenses

* Cursing Bujanski people in the name of the Terran gods
* Celebrating the destruction of a temple, if it's from a Jerdiskar religion
* Celebrating the ban of a work of art or media, over "family values"
* Destroying a temple or idols
* Whataboutism
* Behaving rudely online
* Demanding the right to be rude
* "Internet troll culture"
* Demanding freedom to commit wrongdoing
* Free speech absolutism (as opposed to a more responsible form of freedom)
* Glorifying Internet trolling or extremism
* Extreme or excessive traditionalism
* "Family values", "traditional values" (as they are nowadays seen as slogans glorifying militarism)
* Wanting to turn Bujan into an empire
* Demanding autocracy
* Favouring old people over everyone else, "gerontocracy"
* Rejection of modern medicine
* Excessive symbolism over getting things done
* Excessive religious belief, especially if it leads to aggression - as opposed to ceremonies and faith
* Spitting on any person
* Conspiracy theories
* Attacking non-heterosexuals - seen as a precedent for violence, sadism, and an obsession with power

### Minor offenses

* Calling for a ban on concerts on religious holidays
* Celebrating a ban of a popular movie abroad
* Killing or hurting black cats
	+ Black cats are popular among the Wonaos, and also among the Bujanski Slavs due to Vozonid influence, where they are seen as auspicious animals.
	+ However, Salvationists were superstitious enough to believe in witches and warlocks, so they killed black cats out of fear of said sorcerers and demons.
	+ Keeping a black cat is a symbol of Bujanski resistance, and a rejection to convert to the Terrans' militaristic faiths.
* Demanding the right to use slurs
* Usage of slurs - like satnik, khol, heathen, jaznik

### No longer considered "Salvationist"

Paranoia infected early modern Bujanski society, fuelling the murderous purges of July.

* "Appreciation", "gratitude" - eventually these become too basic as emotions, so people are instead discouraged from misuing them
* Elderly people - elderly people were formerly disliked by the revolutionaries for their alleged support for the Wannaenid regime. Many elderly people were the biggest supporters of the Wannaenids and Terran occupants, expecting them to uphold traditional beliefs using force and heavy-handed methods.
* Avoidance of farmers, miners - background of many Salvationists. The hatred of farmers and miners subsided as more people realised that some of them were also from the same background as them, so they do not need to be regressive.

## "Every online 'troll' is a soldier"

Online users were the majority of people killed by the death gangs and the Anti-Terran Action militants, cursed for their incitement to war against the natives. Such pathetic sociopaths were dragged out to be killed, crushed to a bloody pulp by enraged vigilantes, and their families were also massacred as criminals. Rude behaviour and attitudes on Bujanski websites are severely punished, even if they are done to support the country, also because of their association with the Terrans.

Fanatical people and warmongers on such websites are called "trolls", not seen as mere troublemakers, but potential warmongers and terrorists who deserved death (in earlier times) or imprisonment and public shaming (today). In more extreme cases, the most aggressive hooligans who threaten violence or support enemies of Bujan are even dragged out, exposed, and killed, because they are immediately considered as enemy soldiers.

These are usually rare cases when the more unhinged extremists in Bujanski society are purged, because they are clearly at war against Bujan, and they seek to overthrow the government and impose their rule over its tormented people. In other cases, the Bujanski want those who are near to extremism to simply talk to them for advice, so they can help them abandon those views.

### Where did trolls come from?

See also: Three Archetypes

According to various records from colonial times to as late as AT 1949, the "trolls" come from various backgrounds, which became categories of stereotypes:

1. "Middle-aged and elderly, middle class to poor. Farmer or worker in an industrial job. Frustrated with too many changes, cost of living, so resorts to hooliganism to bring paltry happiness. Is obsessed with traditions, religion, nationalism, and huge families with himself as their overlord."
2. "Mentally-ill, handicapped, alone or with very scant human interaction. Without much socialisation, the person has no where to go for help, so he lashes out on society in his ignorance."
3. "Poor, young adult. Worker. Unhappy with cost of living, abuse, murders, violence, corruption. Resorts to fanatical insanity to relieve himself."
4. "Terran, usually young adult to middle aged, middle class or rich. Indoctrinated to hate the native people, seeing nothing to help him in life. Sees violent threats and terrorism as his only answer, no matter how many innocents he will murder. Wants a brutal regime led by himself as his instant solution to EVERYTHING."
5. "Very rich, young adult to middle aged. Is not so adept in technology as he is in slang and manipulation, wants his own order in society with himself as the overlord. Resorts to childish, puerile insults, slurs, and bigotry, making him utterly worthless without his business, his money, or paltry services."
6. "Terran, young adult to middle aged, poor or middle class. Frustrated worker or student who felt cheated by society, turns to internet trolling to lash out. Uses forbidden imagery and glorifies war crimes for outrage and attention. Is mentally ill."
7. "Terran, young adult, middle class to poor. Sports or videogames fan who wants to project a masculine image, yet fails by resorting to cowardly obsession and hatred. Loves to pick fights, yet is afraid of being conscripted or sent to a real war."
8. "Terran, young adult, mostly female. Student or academic, works in the service sector. Radicalised into believing that total war against the natives of Bujan is the only form of liberation, yet refuses to take up arms by herself. Unfortunately for an artist like her, she is filled with bitter hate, unhappy that her Terran utopia was defeated."

The study of Internet trolls, gathered from interrogations, surveillance, and observation, is popular in modern Bujan as a means to find the causes of various social ills to be prevented.

It is also why Bujan has an extensive system of psychiatrists to help people whenever they are frustrated, closely connected to the national healthcare and judicial systems. So that anyone will at least have someone to talk to and resolve any conflict with their fellow citizen.

### Sadism and psychopathy

In Bujanski law, usage of smiling or laughing faces on a disaster, or to glorify the enemies of Bujan, is forbidden, for it is associated with online fanatics and supremacists who waged war against the country's people - especially the middle-aged men and women who resorted to such cowardice to deal with widespread poverty during colonial rule. In the mandatory Internet classes, children are also taught to avoid such behaviour as "terroristic".

## "Reckless blocking"

See also: Bloka

In Bujanski law, all websites from the country must use this system should any user attempt to block another. No block can pass without any of several reasons listed, such as "harrassment", "spam", "extremism", and "being a threat to me/someone else".

Some of the reasons may lead to both the blocker and the offender being required to attend an online session with a moderator. The moderator will be the judge who determines the punishment for the offender, though if the offender and the blocker apologise and forgive, the block may be cancelled. Punishments may range from public shaming and humiliation by the "blocker"; to suspension *and* a prison term up to a week. Multiple blocks, along with worse behaviour (like bigotry, extremism, hatred of the country and support for enemies) may extend the sentence for up to several years.

The most dreaded legal sentence in Bujanski law awaited every wrongful blocker who blocked more than thirty people who complained about being blocked. After they had to apologise to the people they blocked, they were sent to the "blocktowns", prisons where their minds were forced to see their own crimes repeated to them for months before they underwent penance.

The laws also allow the blocker to shame the user being blocked, and force them to apologise. Luckily, most Bujanski prefer not to leave a petty fool behind, but perhaps to reconcile and make them understand what is wrong with their actions. They also want to see the person being blocked prove that they will never commit the offense ever again, and then they can unblock and reconcile.

### Punishments for irresponsible online blockers

If the blocker's reasons are considered "invalid", such as "this person is annoying", the blocker may instead be jailed for one week or several months.

"Reckless blockers" known in Bujanski as the notorious slur "bloka", are shamed for their irresponsible conduct, and suffer from certain restrictions as a punishment for their attitude, even after they apologised and finished their sentence. These include:

* Having their online accounts suspended and locked until the restrictions end. They are effectively banned from using online accounts while the punishment is there.
* If they do manage to access their online accounts, they might find that every other user had blocked them. Their social media account and all of their posts were hidden from the public, but some websites also add, "this user has violated the Law on Reckless Blockers, and is undergoing penance".
* Being allowed to continue working in existing jobs, but they cannot be hired into new jobs during punishment.
* The only groups that can hire them tend to be those with a license to hire people under criminal records, that had not yet expired. It is to shame the blockers, by subjecting them to the same shunning as they did to innocent people.
* Their art and works are banned from public view and whatever websites they signed up to. Their websites and images are hidden from all searches.
* They are not allowed to use some bus or train routes.
* They are banned from cinemas, concerts, theatres, and (in some provinces and towns) sports matches.

During "punishment time", the blocker is essentially shunned. People may still interact with the blocker, and the blocker is still allowed to attend school, go to work, seek help for emergencies and illnesses, and buy essentials, but almost everyone around them tends to avoid or treat the blocker with contempt and hate. Their face is already recognised from news reports.

Once their punishment was finished, they are required to apologise to the person whom they wrongly blocked in order for the bans to be lifted. Then only will people in Bujan forgive the "random blocker" as if they had truly changed.

The person who is wrongfully blocked may also request the authorities to end a punishment early if they have truly forgiven the blocker. Luckily for some blockers, people in Bujan are a forgiving lot, so many of the "wrongly blocked" seek to arrange meetings to reconcile with and understand the blockers' backgrounds.

### Punishments for offenders who cause a successful block

Likewise, offenders who get successfully blocked are also punished harshly, for causing enough serious harm that may affect more people. The punishments are a warning to society not to commit the offending act.

If the offender refuses to attend the online session, it will be the offender who may not only get blocked for up to a year, but also suspended and put into prison for as many weeks or months as the punishment demands. After one year, the block is automatically removed, although the blocker may choose to unblock earlier by seeing any evidence that the offender was really sorry.

If the reason for the block is for a more serious crime, and the offender has been found to commit a horrific offense (like harrassment and violence), the offender's account may be immediately suspended, and they will be thrown into prison. This time, that block not only passes, but lasts indefinitely.

Usually, such a strong punishment may only end when the offender dies, causing all blocks by their account and from others to be immediately cancelled, if the account still exists.

### What if the blocked person is not an adult?

If the user being blocked is below 18, the block can also be timed until the affected's 18th birthday. Many Bujanski websites depict a padlock and a clock, telling the user that "You are not ready to see this content. Please wait in a few years!"

When the blocked user has reached 18 years of age, the blocker's page asks whether is the user fine with watching the page's sensitive content. Clicking "yes" immediately removes the block.

### Why is online blocking treated more seriously in Bujan?

In Bujanski culture, people are only truly forgiven if they either satisfy their victims or fix what they had broken, or renounce their petty grudges before they die. Therefore, online blocks are seen in Bujanski culture as showing that the person being blocked has committed so much harm, whether by harrassment, bigotry, or simply fraud or spam. For people whom they do not want to see, but have never committed offenses as strong as those, they only mute, which hides the nuisance and denies any further communication with the muter.

Bujanski law restricts online blocks only for serious crimes, but also uses them to mark troublesome users for punishment and humiliation. It is to frighten offenders into avoiding harmful behaviours, and follows the Bujanski culture of apologies, closure, and understanding; though by shaming the offenders.

While during Zvestarid times, online blockers only had to go to prison, the modern ostracism of irresponsible blockers and blocked offenders was the result of public anger against Terran attitudes since the Wannaenid rule. In fact, many of the victims of the death gangs in central Bujan were killed because they blocked people online over petty reasons, and riots broke out to punish online offenders for targeting locals for death or torture.

The supporters of the revolution wanted to erase Terran behaviours, including using the block function for people not considered as a threat. So such offenders are also accused of being Terrans or traitors against Bujan, possible supporters of Wannaenid rule, even if they were the most loyal fanatics of the kingdom.

Another reason was to make those who hurt them feel their suffering, and renounce their crimes. For shunning innocent people who did nothing wrong for any pointless reason, the people who blocked them would learn how was it like to be shunned by everyone else. It was also to force them to be sorry for their attitude.

They also adopted the Denlotian belief that it is wrong for someone who blocked another person to coexist with them in real life, seeing it as threatening the blocked person.

## Linguistic conflict

Because the Terrans and the Salvationists kept forcing Bujanski people and each other to use their languages, they were banned in some parts of Bujan as symbols of oppression. Those were two languages, "American" and Tyrskan; or to some, "English" and "Russian".

Due to the Wannaenid puppet rulers using these languages to force the natives to use them, those languages became associated with the Terran tyrants and their reign of terror.

Tyrskans were very notorious for waging terrorist attacks and being hateful just over their language. Many notorious incidents were shown where elderly and middle-aged Tyrskans beat up people for using native languages. Those attacks became a reason why Bujanski punished anyone who supported the Terran languages. Some parts of Bujan even banned speaking in English or Russian, due to this negative association.

The bans are being challenged in the 1930s by activist groups trying to remove the association. The activists argued that some regiments, even native Bujanski, also used the same languages in writing pro-independence media, so they can also be used to support Bujan.

Another challenge to the bans were the use of those languages in pop culture. They were allowed, like forbidden symbols, to be used in alternate history or historical depictions, yet many artists also used English and Russian words in their art even in the districts where they were banned. The artists themselves would not even dare converse in those languages, seeing them as Terran languages.

One notable sign depicts a man throwing the letter Ы (y) or Ё (jo) into a rubbish bin, or the same letter crossed out. The correct equivalents of those letters in Bujanski are Ѵ and Ѻ/Јо. Another variant of the same signs involves throwing away the English letter Q, itself a symbol of the Church of Q. A third notable sign that is abolished from 1962 inwards was "No American Allowed" (*Bez Džōritǐ vi Maeranskij*, "Never speak in the American language").

## Alcohol

Alcoholic drinks are legal in Bujan, but advertisements promoting alcohol are only allowed inside restaurants and bars. Drunk people are usually escorted to the nearest clinic or police station until they get sober, and most Bujanski look down on alcoholics and drunks as "stupid people" and make jokes about them, after years of government campaigns discouraging alcohol. That makes it an exception among the Darroskei countries as a "dry" nation.

## Mockery of pain

It is extremely unacceptable in Bujanski culture to laugh at disasters - which range from floods and war crimes, to even petty tragedies such as being blocked online.

In ancient Wonao culture, people were executed for laughing at victims of a disaster, such as a flood or a forest fire. Their families may also be punished by public shaming and ostracism for a period of time, ranging from a few days to one year, although the authorities may shorten or pardon those punished for showing good behaviour and remorse.

During Wannaenid rule, this one-size-fits-all attitude towards pain was seen as a "rich world problem", although nowadays it was the result of nationwide trauma.

This also led to a hatred of "moving on", "let it go", and similar concepts supposedly promoted by Terrans to justify their toxic attitude. To counteract this, moral studies became more widespread and compulsory for all young people in Bujan, and many artists created works that taught people how to handle painful situations in life to avoid another massacre.

## Miscellaneous

### Profits over well-being

Actions and attitudes that focus on profits, sacrificing the well-being and comfort of workers and customers, are considered illegal in Bujan. For example, every premise must provide foldable chairs for every worker, leading to the amount of chairs in any job recruitment sign there to show how many workers are available.

### Crass works

Erotic works are avoided in the entire nation, the latter especially among the Ontemazei due to their association with slavery and abuse under the Wannaenids. It is more like that people in Bujan are just more interested in other interests, but they seem to be very popular with young Arnadjanai adults in some districts.

### Mobile phone controversy

Many managers and bosses in Bujan were sent to jail or publicly beaten simply for asking their workers not to use their phones at work. Because prohibitions on the usage of mobile devices was associated with Terran people, it is a criminal offense in modern Bujan to tell a worker not to use a phone.

One the day before Independence Day, the rulers of the Sovereignty Front (Bujanski independence movement) had voted a series of laws to punish *every* manager who banned the use of phones during work. This resulted in many free Bujanski being subjected to penance, some of which lasted for more than a year.

One of the punishments passed included the death penalty for firing a worker over phone usage or lateness. The reasoning was that this was destroying a worker's life and livelihood over a mistake or inconveniencing the worker's mental health.

At the end of June 1892, on the first days of independent Bujan, 372 people were sentenced to death for terminating workers over bad habits at work. Some of the executions being chosen by the workers whom they fired, and some of their former workers became their killers and executioners, celebrated as heroes for punishing "public enemies". This led to the grisly sights of some bosses and managers being hanged to death and displayed on shopping malls, as a warning not to mistreat their workers.

Days later, Koscheigrad suffered from a massacre where hundreds of people were murdered by armed gangs for firing and terminating workers. In one case, a boss of a cafe was shot dead for banning his workers from using phones before independence. Even though he was spared because he apologised and reinstated some of his workers, he was still murdered because of his past offenses.

Bosses and employers in Bujan became more fearful since the July massacres, with the newer leaders who replaced them giving workers in Bujan a lot of power. Yet even though Bujanski society normalised after the end of the massacres, bosses and managers who banned phones and punished workers for their phones were still punished. Instead of being executed, they were simply whipped in public or they had to pay fines.

The last execution of a boss for firing a worker in Bujan took place in 1941 AT, by gunshot in full view of hundreds of people.

## Antithesis

Just as Bujanski tend to forbid others and themselves from committing Terran crimes, so do they also suggest them to practice alternatives.

They considered it wrong to tell others to think just after a punishment, for they consider it senseless that the person would do nothing to undo their own crimes, but die and get bragged by their tormentors. This attitude later became associated with the Terrans who waged war on Bujan, resulting in the culture of penance and the creation of blocktown prisons.

## Trivia

* By 1956 AT (Paxoti and Râdumo's time), very few Bujanski had ever blocked anyone online, that the only people usually blocked were notorious criminals, and a few users who threatened to hurt or kill other users. The blocks *always* follow a report to the website authorities, leading to the arrests of the blocked users for their crimes. Online users who were arrested for wrongful blocks were rare enough to be notable in news reports, so the more common ones were usually for rude behaviour online.
	+ Among the people arrested for blocking the wrong people was Irapati, who tried to block Paxoti over a comment asking her about Terran history. She was arrested for angrily refusing to attend an online session, and threatening to kill Paxoti. By the time she was released from prison a week later, she bowed and apologised to Paxoti.
	+ Another was Takasoka, who once tried to block Radumo and other users. For that, she tried to run, out of hatred towards Radumo for making her the shame of her class for making fun of her parents' forcing her to a depression. Again, her time in prison also made Takasoka extremely remorseful, seeking Râdumo's forgiveness.

## See also

* Denlotian laws
* Jerdiskar society
* Great Consensus
* Penance
* Sophie Goodwill, an example of someone who violated Bujanski taboos (in her case: blocking people without a valid reason, racism, glorifying colonial oppressors)