Laws

## **Politics**

Fierran is a simple republic. General elections are held every 4 years to determine who has what amount of control over the parliament. Each of the 7 districts have a series of representatives.

(7 districts):

* Vezdi'ef (Capital city and its surrounding regions)
* East Fierran
* Central Fierran
* West Fierran
* Lokxeld (Second most populous city and its surrounding regions)
* "Orbit island"
* "Zud-inzluda" (The furthest separate island from the mainland)

As for its views on globally disputed regions; officially it recognises any areas that have declared themselves separate of China, and recognises Israel and Palestine simultaneously.

## Laws:

**Freedom of Expression** - Everyone is entitled to speak, write, type or communicate through other media however they please. This is regardless of the laws of companies, person to person or online, such as social media. Exceptions to this rule only occur if the person is deemed as a direct threat to society, such as Level 5 criminals.

**Voting Grace** - Days when crucial voting (voting at a certain level of importance) is held must be made a holiday in order to ensure voter turnout is as unrestricted as possible for abiding citizens.

**Inmate Voting Rights** - Inmates are permitted to vote except repeat offenders or subjects serving life sentences (Level 5). Repeat offenders mentioned will be allowed to vote once they are released from their sentence but not during it.

**Revoking of Human Rights in Life Sentences** - Criminals once found guilty for a Level 5 crime will be stripped of all rights. Level 5 criminals will no longer be protected by laws, meaning anyone can do anything to them without consequences.

### **Actions and their Penalties:**

#### **Simple warning:**

* Littering (Strikes one, two and three (Warning)).
* Citizens aged 18 and above breaking the Recreational Drug Usage law via public usage (Strike one (Warning)).
* Speeding (Strikes one and two (Warning)).

#### **Social intervention/counselling:**

* Citizens below 18 breaking the Recreational drug use law (Strikes one and two (Warning)).
* Citizens aged 18 and above breaking the Recreational Drug Usage law via public usage (Strike two (Warning)).
* Speeding (Strike 3 (Warning)).
* Breaking the Recreational drug usage law by driving (Strike one).
* Petty theft [Value less than 1000 Fierran Marks] (Strike one).

#### **Community service (40 - 300 hours):**

* Littering (Post-warning strikes/repeat offences).
* Fly-tipping (Strike one (Warning)).
* Citizens below 18 breaking the Recreational drug usage law (Post-warning strikes/repeat offences).
* Citizens aged 18 and above breaking the Recreational drug usage law via public usage (Strike three (Warning)).
* Speeding (Strike 3 (Warning)).
* Breaking the Recreational Drug Usage law via driving (Strike two).
* Petty theft [Value less than 1000 Fierran Marks] (Strike two).

#### **Driver's license revoked (Temporary):**

* Speeding (Strike 4).

#### **Driver's license revoked (Permanent):**

* Speeding (Strike 5).
* Breaking the Recreational Drug Usage law via driving (Strike three).

#### **Child and/or animal rehoming (Temporary):**

* Parents/owners committing Level 1 crimes.

#### **Child and/or animal rehoming (Permanent):**

* Parents/owners committing a Level 2 or above crime or having repeat sentences.

#### **Fines/Repayment (Depending on damages and situation):**

* Fly-tipping.
* Theft.
* Arson.

#### **Increased taxes (0.5% - 10% increase of rate paid, 1 - 5 years):**

* Companies breaking the Accessible Refunds law.

#### **Level 1 prison sentence (3 months - 1 year)**:

* Citizens aged 18 and above breaking the Recreational Drug Usage law via public usage (Post-warning strikes/repeat offences).
* Assault (Strike one).

#### **Level 2 prison sentence (1-5 years):**

* Fly-tipping (Strike two).
* Petty theft [Value less than 1000 Fierran Marks] (Strike three).
* Minor theft [Value 1000-5000 Fierran Marks] (Strike one).
* Assault (Strike two).
* S\*xual assault (Strike one).
* Bestiality (Strike one).

#### **Level 3 prison sentence (5-15 years):**

* Fly-tipping (Post-strike two/repeat offences).
* Petty theft [Value less than 1000 Fierran Marks] (Post-strike three/repeat offences).
* Minor theft [Value 1000-4999 Fierran Marks] (Strike two).
* Intermediate theft [Value 5000-19,999 Fierran Marks] (Strike one).
* Assault (Strike two).
* Manslaughter (Strike one).

#### **Level 4 prison sentence (15-30 years):**

* Driving without a license after it has been revoked for an offence.
* Arson (Strike one).
* Minor theft [Value 1000-4999 Fierran Marks] (Post-strike 2/repeat offences).
* Intermediate theft [Value 5000-19,999 Fierran Marks] (Strike two).
* Major theft [Value 20,000+ Fierran Marks] (Strike one).
* Assault (Post-strike 2/repeat offences).
* S\*xual assault (Strike-strike one/repeat offences).
* Bestiality (Post-strike one/repeat offences).
* Incest (Strike one).
* Grievous bodily harm (Strike one).
* Child or animal physical-abuse (Strike one).
* Possession of CP (Strike one).
* Manslaughter (Strike two).
* Murder (Strike one). [Always 30 years]

#### **Level 5/Life sentence and Human rights revoked once imprisoned (Permanent):**

* Intermediate theft [Value 5000-19,999 Fierran Marks] (Strike three).
* Major theft [Value 20,000+ Fierran Marks] (Strike two).
* Arson (Strike two).
* Incest (Strike two).
* Grievous bodily harm (Strike two).
* Child or animal physical-abuse (Strike two).
* Possession of CP (Strike two).
* Manslaughter (Strike three).
* Child s\*xual abuse.
* Multiple murders.

There's a lot of stuff I'm not even gonna get into. You may or may not be surprised by how many crimes there are. How do people even come up with doing all this nasty shit, y'all are wrong.

## Recreational drugs

**Recreational Drug Usage** - A list of recreational drugs are legal to those aged 18 and above although usage of these substances in strictly public spaces or any vehicle is outlawed. Private dwellings/venues where it is explicitly stated these substances are permitted can bypass the public spaces term but users must still be verified as 18 or above.

### **List of confirmed acceptable recreational drugs:**

* Alcohol
* Tobacco
* Cannabis
* Lysergic acid diethylamide

The specifics of this list have been subject to change and it is still yet to be officially set, exceptions allowing people to use substances outside of this list are made very frequently.

## Business

**Accessible Refunds** - A company must accept refunds or returns of any product deemed refundable (Non-consumable and within the refund time window). The refund time window must be stated, this is the time frame the consumer can get a guaranteed refund, and should span around 2 months after purchase at least. They are not forced to FULLY refund the product, but at least to 60% of the consumer's price at time of purchase. It must be made clear in public audit documents how many products have been refunded or sent back annually. Distributers simply selling the item on behalf of the company are not subject to the ramifications but the company which created the item **is** subject. Information about the refunding process including contact information must be made available on packaging in order for refund requests to be sent directly to the company responsible. It is ILLEGAL to suppress refunds and annual records of such.

This law applies unless the item is pre-owned (being sold second-hand, consumer to consumer out of the original company's boundaries).

## Education

**Accessible Education** - All citizens within ages 2-18 have the right to free standard education. Exceptions to the age ranges for each year group can be made for a student if deemed by the school board to be "within reason".

The school year starts in March.

### **School progression:**

#### **Pre-primary:**

* 2-4 year olds

#### **Primary school:**

* Y1 4-5
* Y2 5-6
* Y3 6-7
* Y4 8-9

#### **Secondary school:**

* Y5 ages 9-10
* Y6 ages 10-11
* Y7 ages 11-12
* Y8 ages 12-13

#### **Tertiary school:**

* Y9 13-14
* Y10 14-15
* Y11 15-16
* Y12 / Examinary period 16-17 (It's not a full school year, it's focused on revision and then final exams of compulsory education.)

#### **Post-tertiary education:**

* (No specified time frame.)

#### **Professionalist grade:**

* (No specified time frame.)