Bloka

In the Bujanski language, a "**bloka**" is among the most offensive and terrible words to ever be used. It was from the Qyuvian-language word "block", referring to a practice used *too* often by Maeranoi online users to abuse other users. "Bloka" were also known as "raendoblokky" ("random blocker"), referring to their untrustworthy attitude.

Originally, it refers to someone who recklessly blocks people over mistakes, refusing to forgive them and let them explain, making them look like as if they would cheat others over simple errors. It was later used by the death gangs and the Bujanski Revolution, in rage, to refer to *any* Terran whatsoever, due to most Terrans resorting to blocking out of spite against the resentful natives.

However, Bujanski law exempts and passes blocks if the offender was a spammer, a fraud, has harrassed a person, has shown extremist views, or has committed serious harm or a criminal offense. In that case, the person who blocked them is NOT a "bloka", so they will not be punished.

Not only people who wrongfully blocked people were named as "bloky", but anyone who harrasses another user, or commits serious harm through online interactions, is also called a "bloka".

In short, the term by its essence mainly means "an online offender".

## Terminology

In Bujanski, the plural of a "bloka" is a "bloky", where the final "a" becomes into another vowel.

In Eosome, the other main official language of Bujan, they are known as "jelkerep", which means "hurtful blocker".

## Before Wannaenid rule

In Denlotian law, which is applied across the world, online blocks are restricted to those who have committed certain crimes, threats, serious harm, spam, or fraud. People were also allowed to report another user for unfairly blocking, calling for an online session to mediate and apologise.

If a user does not want to see another user that bothers him, he must instead "mute" the other one, effectively hiding the muted nuisance from his sight. The other side may see, but cannot interact, with the muter for one year.

Yet as the later Kingdom of Zvesta loosened many restrictions, it also led to blocking becoming more common. Still, every block always left behind a reason in order for it to work. It was the Salvation Party that led to the end of Denlotian-style restrictions, believing that becoming more "Terran" did not need to be evil. But behind those unpopular "reforms", the Salvationists only wanted to use the new freedom to condition them to accept assimilation into Tyrska.

## Wannaenid bloky

See also: To a user whom I formerly blocked, Interrogation of Sofi Gudvila

"Blocking", the online action, was most often reported in western and southern Bujan, which were occupied by the Church of Q. The Church of Q had a thriving Internet community, used for socialisation and propaganda, like their Tyrskan and Salvationist rivals who had their Internet communities. Tyrskans were more tolerant of videogames, but they also enjoyed bullying people.

Salvationists tried to create their own videogame communities, but as their conditions began to degrade, they became more militaristic. They were the second-most frequent users of online blocks, but mostly to mark a person for harrassment. It led to the popular hatred towards online blockers in general.

The five central provinces in Bujan were notorious for their revolution against Wannaenid-Qyuvian rule, in which they murdered hundreds over various online offenses. Blocking people over petty reasons, which was seen as a form of healing by Qyuvians, was the main reason why hundreds of Qyuvians were killed by angry mobs. It led to the belief among the oppressed locals to create a "new Bujan", seeking to abandon and resolve any and all grudges whenever possible out of avoidance of anything related to the Terrans.

With the arrival of more Terrans and the formation of the Serpentians came more online blocks and harrassment, especially in southern Bujan. The Serpentians' fear of the death gangs caused them to wage war on all native peoples alongside the other powers of the island.

Using several programmes, nearly all the Terrans and their collaborators blocked thousands of online accounts belonging to anyone who was a Bujanski native - Slav, Wonao, or Vozonid. It effectively isolated the Terrans from the native people, splitting the local Internet into two worlds. It, along with growing hateful rhetoric and trolling by a growing number of Terran fanatics, made the natives hate the Terrans more, sparking more revolts and massacres of Terrans.

The Wannaenid colonies and puppet states were thrown into murderous chaos, all because of several programmes that split the local Internet into two impassable worlds. And it was exactly what the Wannaenids wanted, to reduce Bujan into one big killing field.

## Bloky and the Revolution

Other nations acknowledged the suffering that drove the Bujanski to revolt against their colonial masters. However, they considered it very absurd that online blocks were the main reason why the death gangs and other revolutionaries attacked Terrans.

But upon a closer look at the country's recent history, it made more sense as the blocks were part of the Terrans' persecution of native people, a continuation of their bigotry for the sake of sadism. Of course, the Bujanski were driven to rage by their grief, cheated by their abusive rulers for centuries and forced to accept their overwhelming, near-inescapable misery.

A alliance of revolutionary groups emerged, horrified by the brutality of the death gangs. Among their rules was to abandon any grudges among its members, to encourage them to seek out and help the poor.

### Deucalion Amnesty

See also: Deucalion Amnesty

This also led to a policy where defectors were encouraged to rescue or call their rivals to join them, including people they blocked or who blocked them. The growing wars across Bujan between the Terrans and the Wannaenids, and against each other, encouraged more people to join the revolts to survive. The number of online blocks had dropped as more users requested to join the rebels to avoid getting killed in the crossfire. More notably, some of the defectors said they wondered if they were personally responsible for the violence, feeling so much shame and guilt over what they did.

On the other hand, many of the "blockers" who refused to join the revolution were seen as enemies. For their hatred against the revolution escalating into downright bigotry, they were among the Terrans and "Salvationists" (collaborators of the Terrans and Wannaenids) who had to undergo penance.

Because many of them exhibited antisocial or hurtful behaviours, they became the stereotype of *all* Terrans, with online blocks towards people over petty mistakes being seen as making them *extremely* unreliable as friends, and unsuitable for society.

This led to "bloka", a loanword from the Qyuvian language, becoming a strong slur towards any Terran in general. Many revolutionary groups drafted laws that restricted online blocks to more serious offenses, including harrassment; and more harsher punishments on offenses that led to online blocks. Those were to eliminate "Terran attitudes", to force all Bujanski to be more confrontational, so they were better in finding injustice and abuse.

Showing mercy to "bloky", instead of immediately killing them, caused the revolution to become an enemy of the death gangs. The death gangs even declared war on Bujanski knights from Rukania who decided to take in prisoners on death row, or forcibly interrupt executions. They were soundly defeated as the revolution was aided by its allies from abroad.

### The Great Boycott

See also: Great Boycott

In areas held by the revolutionary alliance led by Dostagir, and in occupied areas of Bujan, people who were found blocking people over petty and invalid reasons were shunned by society. Students and coworkers refused to sit near a bloka, and various venues and transport services immediately denied bloky from entering their premises.

Suspected bloky were publicly shamed, using the same power to shun any specific, innocent users to shun them as a society. It was supposedly proportionate to the amount of harm inflicted on any user for making a simple misunderstanding.

This was known as the Great Boycott, forcing bloky to compensate and seek forgiveness from their victims. It also led to bloky from occupied territories risking their lives to join the rebellion, and bring whoever they hurt along to seek forgiveness.

It and the surrounding violence caused more Terrans to change their attitude into fear and regret, realising their mass blocks only made things worse. They also noticed that the same Wannaenids who supposedly brought them to rule over Bujan actually wanted to destroy them too, seeing the Terrans as nothing more than weapons in the bodies of wicked human beings, unworthy of any respect.

### "Broken Plates is a bloka's show!"

See also: Five Stages of a Bloka, Ten Misconceptions

Because many bloky were fans of the show "Broken Plates", especially the most notorious bloky in modern Bujanski history, the *whole* fandom was stereotyped as a treacherous community of "bloky", traitors, and cheaters. Such fans betray people over the smallest mistakes and misunderstandings, selling out their own people just to keep their comfort and hobbies while their own people suffered under the colonials. This led to the show being banned in some parts of Bujan as being associated with bloky; and some premises even banned fans of Broken Plates as possible bloky.
Protests also broke out in parts of Bujan, out of fear that people in the rest of the kingdom would be murdered for being fans of the show. Some of them were former bloky who underwent penance, and brought the people whom they had hurt and apologised as proof that they were not a threat to society.

### The "Bloka Aristocracy"?

The killing and punishment of all bloky in Bujan was one of the factors that led to the spread of the rebellion across the island. More and more wanted to use the rebellion to take revenge in various offenders, even if it was something as simple as a rude comment or a petty block, all just to eliminate the behaviours from the entire country.

A conspiracy theory poisoned the minds of the fanatics and those who followed them. It claimed that if the bloky were to go unpunished, but to be granted any form of equality or rights, they will misuse their rights to isolate themselves from society with their online blocks and shunning. The bloky would attempt to create a new aristocracy, and take over Bujan like the Salvation Party did, as an aristocracy. This belief angered the Bujanski, who became more willing to punish anyone suspected to be a bloka.

## July 1892

The cultural hatred and ostracism of "bloky" also led to violence against Terran people after independence, as many militants sought to kill all Terrans as a collective punishment. Songs played about killing and torturing "bloky", which had become an offensive slur towards all Terran people, were played in many Bujanski towns.

### Are all youngsters "bloky"?

It also resulted in extremely bizarre behaviours due to paranoia. Children and teenagers became stereotyped as bloky, resulting in people developing a fear or hatred of anyone younger than 18. It also resulted in minors not being allowed to have social media accounts. Many youngsters also reported being shunned by their own peers, for wrongfully blocking or banning their friends online; and they were seen as disloyal or fraudulent.

Some towns even banished any families with children, falsely accusing *all* young people of being "bloky". Those towns then produced new members by cloning, though some of those childless towns were killed off by anti-Terran militants over one reckless mistake.

### Seeds of Ruin

The incidents that sparked nationwide violence was at the northwestern town of Konudar, and the Phone Boy. The Konudar shootings were done by one angry Terran who killed a party that celebrated his blocks being removed by the government.

As a result, all the Terrans in Konudar were exiled and sent to a walled settlement, where they continued to have basic needs supplied to them and avoided the surrounding July violence. The "Phone Boy" was one frustrated Terran artist who showed pictures of screencaps about users being blocked, to irritate bystanders for his own, insane amusement, and then he was killed by a motorcyclist who started a mob to hunt down other Terrans. The other Terrans fled to a nearby city to the south by train.

Almost all Terran people during that time had to undergo penance, and "bloky" who attacked thirty users or more were sent to prisons. They often wanted to convince the Bujanski that they will never return to their blocking habits ever again, but obey the laws. They were, thankfully, supported by the Free North (Terrans who defected to Bujan) and several provinces who flew orange flags.

## Law of Blocking

Because harrassment was very common for any Internet user, the death gangs and Bujanski revolutionaries created their own rules regarding online blocks.

1. Only those who block people who are not a threat are considered "bloky".
2. If you block someone AND prove that this person is a threat, you are NOT a bloka.
3. If a person is successfully blocked due to enough evidence to a mod, that user can go to jail and their account will be suspended
	* There are eight reasons that may lead to an online block being passed:
		1. fraud
			+ scammers are executed for the scale of harm they unleash against society.
		2. spamming
		3. trolling (hateful comments)
			+ whataboutism is considered as an act of war, punishable with death. Answer the question and then you ask another, to avoid whataboutism.
		4. harrassment
			+ hate speech is considered harrassment
		5. threats of harm
		6. committing a serious crime (like murder, abuse, protching, terrorism)
		7. glorifying abominable behaviour
		8. hatred against Bujan and its people
4. An online block that passes with proof is of two types:
	1. year ban - expires one year after the punishment.
	2. permanent - only for more serious crimes, may expire when the offender dies
5. Another user can block another user for being of the wrong age.
	* When the younger user has become an adult, the block automatically expires, but the new adult must consent to see the blocker's content before they can be allowed again. This is called a "time block".
6. If your reason for the block does not fall within any of the valid reasons, you have one chance to confirm if you want to go ahead with the block or not. No evidence means that your block will be rejected, and you will be punished for attempted harm against another user.
	* This may lead to your account being suspended and your arrest.
7. If you just do not want to see another user, you must mute them.
	* Note that this will last for one year, as by the time it will expire, the annoyance will have forgotten about you, making it too pointless to be a grudge or grievance.
8. Anyone can report you to the hotline for wrongly blocking another user.

## Other kinds of bloka

The term "bloka" also meant "online criminal", "cybercriminal" or "internet troll", referring to a fanatical extremist who harrasses others to glorify his ideology.

### Criminals

These three kinds of criminal deserved no forgiveness. A "bloka" could repent of his ways and reconcile with his victim, but these three will still commit the same crimes out of enjoyment or to survive.

So revolutionaries made it legal to kill anyone who committed those crimes:

* Whataboutists - "people who demand others to look at their sins, ONLY when anyone criticises them".
* Frauds - "people who cheat others to steal their money and belongings; people who repeatedly spam online".
	+ The various cyberwarfare groups, usually hackers, who operated against the Bujanski revolution were killed off as enemy combatants. In response, Bujan prohibits hacking groups in the whole country, even if they were supposed to do it to support Bujanski interests, as "behaviour of the enemy".
* Trolls - "people who harrass, threaten violence, or threaten to kill others online". People who behaved rudely online were seen as this, associated with terrorists, militants, and warmongers who attacked Bujan.

These were EXACTLY the people a Bujanski loyalist was allowed to block, and ONLY when they had evidence.

Many people in Bujan also considered it right to kill these three on sight, as their comments and behaviour made them more closer to the hostile soldiers who invaded Bujan. As much as bloky are hated in modern Bujan, they are somewhat more tolerated since they did not commit the same offenses as those three, seen as more destructive to society.

### Muvanniki

Another kind of person hated in Bujan is a "muvannik". A muvannik, from the Qyuvian words "move on", is a person who abandons friends and expects themselves and everyone to move on from every loss.

The muvannik is more hated than the bloka because he wants to force people to never interact with him. The muvannik always thinks that in place of those who failed or angered him, he still has his social media account and new friends and opportunities waiting for him. His "victims" were nothing more than dysfunctional, angry people; or people who made many offensive mistakes, but were rejected.

The anger of the muvannik's past "friends" had seeped into the rebels, who decided to protest Terran rule by punishing anyone seen as a "muvannik", a "bloka", or a troll. Anyone who saw the muvannik knew what he was, and his eager face, so they shunned him and banned him from various venues.

Some mocked the muvannik's demands to be "left alone" by locking the muvannik in a cell, isolated from ever interacting with the world as a punishment for antisocial resentment. Bujanski feared that muvanniki would hate them and the world over their mistreatment, hence the Bujanski government isolating muvanniki in prisons just for wanting to be left alone or avoid a toxic friend.

The few muvanniki who were released noted that they were seen as dangerous or hateful, shunned in spite of their lack of penance; a result of collective punishment being applied in nearly every aspect of social life in Bujan. They were left with only a few friends and several associations calling for social reform. The muvanniki wanted to show the people that they do not pose a threat against everyone else, even in spite of their fear and avoidance of a former friend who would have tortured them for rejection.

Some claimed that the ostracism of muvanniki and bloky was the inversion of Terran "cancel culture", in which a group who normally "cancels" (like Internet users, artists, and entire fandoms) would end up being the ones cancelled. Like the bloka, the muvannik's shunning of one or several online users was punished by the rebels by making him an outcast. If he made any art, his artworks would be hidden or banned.

## The psychology of bloky:

"*You can turn the entire island into a hive mind, reduce every person into a fleshy machine! But know this, kulak, that there will always be people who will be born as insufferable assholes! You cannot stop humans from m\*ving \*n! There will always be blockers until the last human dies!*" - a Terran prisoner, before she underwent penance.

"*We can stop more people from becoming like you. We are not like you, bloka, and we will never become like you.*" - the person the Terran had blocked, then unblocked by the government of Bujan.

### What creates a "bloka"?

According to a lot of research and records collected across Wannaenid rule, bloky developed those behaviours as a result of the dysfunctional, impoverished, and abusive conditions they grew up under. War, violence, torture, and murder everywhere drove many younger Terrans and some Bujanski to rely heavily on Internet usage, and without people to help them, they became so isolated that they were almost unable to converse or socialise in the real world.

Surrounded by constant danger all the time, bloky do not value any friendship, except among the closest people they knew. Just a single mistake and an extremely uncomfortable misunderstanding, and a new friend would be cast out and blocked in an instant. It led to them being less sociable towards newcomers, in spite of anything they did to help the less-fortunate.

In their own records, bloky claimed that doing so was a form of healing and love for themselves, allowing them to focus on a stream of new people. They hid the psychological harm they inflicted on people, over mistakes, with sweetened words such as "experience", "growth", "new opportunities", and "life lessons". It made them more likely to treat other people, except their closest friends, as expendable and disposable.

Many bloky also claimed that their treatment of friends as expendable was to protect themselves from possible abusers, who would continue to harrass them in spite of any pleas to stop.

Their attitude was also stemmed from poor self-esteem, resulting in a fear of brutal retribution over confronting their own actions. They celebrated "consequences" on anyone who angered them, even if they had no harmful intent, as their only relief and power in a world where they felt powerless. Yet when they had to explain their actions, to apologise, and to undo their own mistakes, they would flee, hence them resorting to blocking over the smallest irritation.

All they wanted was an ever-fleeting relief in a realm thrown into chaos. Yet, Bujan was a nation where justice was worshipped, to the extent that everyone would be rewarded or punished by whatever they were found doing, even online. The suffering the ignorant bloky unleashed upon its oppressed people only worsened their pain.

And in the society that venerated justice to be free from colonial torment, consequences were much stronger. Good behaviour was rewarded with many friends who stood by a doer's side; while abusive behaviour was punished by public shaming, torture, or death. The excessive measures represented the Bujanski people's desire for justice, to be free from everything that hurt them, by *any* means necessary.

### How to not become a "bloka"

The avoidance of becoming like their enemy is a Bujanski cultural value.

In place of whatever an enemy did or banned them from doing, the Bujanski created their own. They said all they wanted that they hated growing up, hated new things, and hated loss and learning - and yet they did them anyway.

To avoid becoming a bloka, a Bujanski must remain disciplined. They must be more considerate of others' feelings, reserving blocking only to those who committed serious harm.

They also demand proof from an offender, before they can be totally kicked or banned from an online server, that the offender only made a mistake. If they did, they were allowed back after apologising to everyone. It was also their only chance to be allowed as proof of ignorance, so if they did it again, they will be banned with a warning for a year, and then they would be allowed back. Worse offenders and threats get indefinite bans that may last until their deaths.

The hatred of bloky instead caused Bujanski to become more helpful, especially to the poor, the wrongfully shunned, and the needy, so they used the vast wealth of the Jerde Alliance to uplift the entire nation and prevent anyone from becoming poor. Even the remaining Terrans were also granted a starting sum of wealth, including those in prison who were granted a bank account with a decent amount of money upon release.

Various offences and abominations turned Terrans and even Bujanski into bloky, driving them into fear and paranoia to protect themselves, at the cost of their reputation to society. Having known what horrors had drove people into becoming bloky, anyone who committed the same abominations was brutally tortured and killed. It was the opposite of the Bujanski's mercy to those seen as victims, answering suffering with torment as they subject the worst offenders to the most gruesome of deaths. Some of those evil deeds were known as "protching", in the sense that "protchers" murdered and even ate people, especially children. Fittingly, those cannibals and violators, along with those who supported their horrors, were torn to shreds by the rebels wherever they were found.

ULTIMATELY: since blocking was sometimes used to hide a user who was seen as a pest, the Bujanski always recommended muting the user.

### Avoidance of becoming a "bloka"

The conditions and attitudes of notorious bloky are shown in schools and museums all over Bujan, to instruct students and visitors how not to become a bloka. For all of their hatred of bloky, outrage and pity over the miserable conditions that turned people into bloky led to better education and healthcare all over Bujan. They wanted to make sure no one in Bujan had to suffer the same things, to suffer from poverty and abuse, becoming into people who would throw friends aside over a mistake.

It also led to a cultural hatred of "moving on", even as the Bujanski were *already* doing it. Those Qyuvian words became associated with bloky, and therefore, betrayal and deceit. Bujanski people would warn others, if they try to comfort someone who is mourning and crying, NEVER to tell them to move on. Even if the "loss" was simply a ban or one's friends shunning a mourner over a mistake, telling a person to "move on" is seen as making fun of the person's sadness. Instead, they assure the mourner that the problem will go away, curse the person who hurt the mourner, or (if the mourner was about to end their grief), tell them what they can do as a replacement.

Telling a person to think about their actions, even if it was meant to improve them for correcting themselves, was seen to Bujanski as idleness, something commonly practiced among Maeranoi. They would instead either comfort someone who cries over a loss, or encourage them to do something better. They would rather not *think*, but instead *do*, reserving the *thinking* only when they were able to feel better and talk with each other.

Finally, if another user tries to block one user, they are also reporting themselves to the moderators of a website. The moderators will investigate both parties, by their cases, evidence, and online activity. Whatever proof of any harmful behaviour was enough to let an online block pass; but the frauds, trolls, and spammers who also make up bloky were immediately blocked, and if they were in Bujan, after their suspension they were quickly arrested and thrown into prison.

## Counter-example

Not every Bujanski is willing to put every bloka to death. Some Bujanski instead suggested that while the bloka is to be shunned by society as a punishment, a better way is to show others an alternative to the attitudes practiced by bloky.

They are to mute users and report any uncomfortable behaviour, so the moderators will arrange sessions to force offenders to confess and apologise to all those they hurt. Instead of blocking the foolish, they are to forgive those who have truly confessed their mistakes, so long as the mistake was not a serious crime or an abomination. They especially value friendship and trust, so even a repentant Terran who has satisfied the terms of his victims is more welcome, than a Bujanski who resorts to blocking over simple misunderstandings.

The only people they ever blocked were those who committed harrassment, spam, trolling, or worse crimes, who were also hunted down and punished in real life. So they made blocking more like a report. They were more confident because they made the block system into a way to hunt the worst offenders of society, allowing the misunderstood to be forgiven and accepted into Bujanski society.

## "Consequences"?

In 1904 AT, around six years after the end of the July massacres, many Bujanski were upset that their own people waged massacres over something as pointless as online blocks and internet trolls. They also listed the massacres at Koscheigrad over former ex-workers killing managers and businesspeople, as one of the examples of what they did not want in Bujanski society.

Initially, that group of dissidents and activists wanted their own people to make peace with the Terran minority, by allowing them to be integrated. This led to violent attacks by Bujanski society, who accused them of glorifying Terran behaviour.

To avoid retaliations from their own people and some Bujanski fanatics, those activists made works of art to carry their message. Two such examples were the award-winning movie, "Canvas", and the "mending and folding" genre of novels, both which pointed out the excessive hatred towards the former bloky.

Canvas represented the worth of taking revenge over the bloky, and suggested the authors to instead do something useful. The mending and folding books were meant to teach people how to cope with rejection in general.

Both of these were meant to prevent the mob violence from happening again in Bujan. Earlier, moral classes were established and spread to stop further violence from reducing Bujan into a wasteland.

### Legends

In the legends of modern Bujan, the souls of every bloka, and every other Terran, was cursed by the oppressed inhabitants of the country. Even those of the same blood as their downtrodden kin were also punished with the same curse for doing the same things as bloky did.

Every victim of the curse was forced to remember their offenses, including collective sins, for the rest of their lives. Any child from theirs, especially those of pure Terran descent, was also born with the curse. Some legends claimed that the vitality of a bloka affected by the curse will eventually flow into any victims they hurt, extending the health and years of their victims at the bloka's own expense as a punishment for destroying innocent lives.

During the revolution, many former bloky also felt the "curse", as they pondered for many of their living, waking years on whether they were responsible for the purges unleashed by angry mobs. It continued to haunt them for many years, even after they were forgiven by the people they hurt, to the point that some of them wanted their former foes to accompany them on their deathbeds.

Some legends also claimed that after their passing, some souls of bloky were cursed to wander the earth for a while, eaten with emptiness for the friends they betrayed. Others were brought to the afterlife, flowing with a stream of tears from their eyes, all the way to their time to be judged by the Gods. Only those who were allowed into Paradise were freed from the curse, to be able to smile for the first time without a sob to interrupt every word.

## Social conditions of bloky

While people undergoing penance had some restrictions, bloky were among the most hated people in Bujanski society. For wrongfully blocking innocent people over trivial reasons, the Bujanski blocked and shunned them from social life, subjecting them to discrimination even after they were forgiven.

It took years for people to stop shunning them, but even with grudges gone, many Bujanski would rather avoid them.

* Bloky have their own social media accounts suspended, and cannot make new ones for the duration of their penance. They can access their own accounts, but cannot interact with others, or add new posts. Other users cannot interact with the bloky's accounts, which are hidden from all websites until their penance ends.
	+ To communicate, they can only use typical phones or apps that allow them to speak to peers, the people overseeing them, and the hotline.
* Bloky were allowed to work in existing jobs, but may not get hired by most jobs as a punishment for harming innocent people.
	+ Certain jobs with blue tags allowed them unconditionally, but were also notorious for hiring criminals and people undergoing penance, avoided by Bujanski society.
* Bloky would be banned from entering certain shops and venues. They were still allowed to buy food and necessities.
* Bloky are listed in a national database, so they can be identified wherever they go in public.
	+ Some towns order all bloky and people undergoing penance to live in separate, "prison towns", as a mark of shame. Their lives in prison towns make others know that they are undergoing legal punishment, risking ostracism and humiliation.
* Bloky would be banned from some bus and train lines. They cannot even enter some train or bus stations, but may only take the same transport as with people undergoing penance or with criminal records.
* If a bloka works in another town, a white flying bus or taxi is reserved for them. Every time, they must board the vehicle to avoid using public transport.
	+ Although this is very convenient for the bloka, and also allows them a space to think all by themselves, many bloky consider this to be shameful because it alienates them.
* Bloky who undergo penance were not allowed to travel to other countries. They are banned from leaving Bujan for the duration of their punishment. They were allowed only after they completed their penance.
	+ After Makkadal and its neighbours became part of Bujan, bloky who undergo penance were not allowed to cross into the five nations. This was considered as "travelling to other countries", defeating the purpose of forcing bloky to change their attitudes in Bujan.
* Some hospitals and clinics would state that they "would rather let a bloka fall sick and die, than allow him to be healthy". Most healthcare venues would still let them in, but bloky would have to hide what they really were to avoid being shunned by the others around them.
* \* Eventually in 1904 AT, all hospitals and clinics were obligated by law to allow bloky to be treated, and not deny them from any appointment. This led to three terrorist attacks in northeastern Bujan, where gunmen falsely accused the medical staff of treason. The gunmen were killed by law enforcement, and their families were forced to undergo penance for two months.
* Bloky would be addressed with insulting names instead of their own names.
* In some places, bloky would have their children also subjected to shunning. Yet it was easier for them to be accepted by society by continually proving themselves that they will never do the same offenses as their parents did.
* Any artwork or writing by bloky is banned from public display. Any online copies of bloky's artwork are being withheld, hidden from search results, and removed from websites.
* In some public venues, like shopping malls, all bloky must use designated entrances. Bloky who use the main entrance may risk being identified and attacked if their cards started to blink, triggering alarms and hateful stares.
* Bloky are ordered by law to attend a moral class in a school, or to a museum. There, a bloka must answer questions and explain, to help people understand about the history of online blocks and their violent controversy. While most bloky found it to be very shameful, others gladly accepted such measures, because they noticed that kids getting to know them led to more people wanting to help the bloky survive penance. This also helps them reconcile with the public, so people can understand who the bloky really are and what they are like, and they will not be seen as a threat.

During penance, a bloka must contact the people he had harmed to know if he completed his penance, such as informing them about what work he did today (construction, community service). Only after finishing his penance, and being declared forgiven by the victim, can the bloka end his status as an outcast.

If a bloka is a minor, he must instead report to his parents or guardians, *not* to any victim that is older. He can still attend his current school or academy, but may risk being shunned by his classmates, or forced to apologise to the classmate he blocked.

Even after a bloka has been forgiven, many people in Bujan refuse to tolerate him. They still see him as a traitor and a fraud, and some venues still ban him for up to a few years before they too are obligated by law to permit him again.

## Notable bloky

### Wannaenid rule

See also: Herellia's Confession

In most historical records, most bloky were found in central and southern Bujan, especially in Qyuvian and Salvationist territories.

Other factions also engaged in wrongfully blocking people, including Bujanski who did so and were put to death.

* "thespiancane", Herellia Minvori - the first person in Bujan to be killed as a "bloka", hacked by an angry mob.
	+ She was an artist from Qyuvian-held territories who had a history of emotional problems, hence her deciding to block and throw aside even her most trusted friends.
	+ Her favourite character was Trinor from the show "Broken Plates", as he was also her icon in social media. Because of the character's association with her, depicting Trinor in any way was seen as offensive in Bujan, as he became associated with bloky and Terrans, as a mockery of the nation's suffering and mourning.
	+ Her username became used as a curse word during the revolution, blaming her for the mob violence that broke out. It led to suspected and convicted bloky being marginalised, rejected and hated as representative of the Terran-Wannaenid oppressors.
		- In dozens of surveys before 1892, the reformed bloky who supported Bujan instead condemned and apologised for their collective offenses.
	+ In legends, she returned as a spirit, cursed to forever appear only as Trinor in the form of a woman. She was eventually crushed by her own guilt as she wondered whether was she ultimately responsible for the destruction that swept Bujan over her love of the show.
	+ After 1908, Herellia's favourite character had become legal. Some films explored about her actual motives, instead of the demonised abuser that was depicted in propaganda. One movie was about her fear of being killed, and the other was about a living, older Herellia trying to survive in independent Bujan.
* Johnny Rethegros - although also an artist, he became more unreliable as he also blocked his friends over mistakes. He was later found dead after someone threw bombs into his home.
* Rebus Hillregon - a journalist who wrote one of the most notorious articles in colonial history, in a magazine in a Qyuvian town. It promoted freely blocking anyone, including trusted friends, as a form of "healing".
	+ Considering that most Bujanski saw this as making fun of their pain, Rebus was caught by an angry mob, who struck him down with swords.
* Jed Minatak - a carpenter. Notorious for his habit of banning people who did not worship the Qyuvian god, or who were Bujanski natives.
* \* Jed was later beaten to death by a mob, who crushed his head with wooden rods.
* Dobroslav Mudretski - an athlete. Killed by his friends because he blocked them over a disagreement: they slashed his face and cut his head to pieces.

### Independent Bujan

* The Konudar shooter, Horobinov Motavai
	+ A frustrated young man who murdered several people who were celebrating the end of various online blocks. His reasons were listed in a note, cursing every person who rejoiced that he was no longer able to hurt them anymore: not only by randomly blocking them, but also by harrassment.
	+ Although he was shot dead, his murder frightened the rest of Bujan, causing many to call for a nationwide investigation of every person in the kingdom.
* Phone Boy, Dmitri Valenov
	+ Notorious for his anger issues, to the point that he wanted to troll Bujanski people to take revenge for his blocks being removed by the government.
	+ Like the Konudar shooter, he was also an artist.
	+ He was killed by an angry mob, who pursued other Terrans who fled from the town.
	+ Statues of him were built in western Bujan, as outlets for angry people to bomb the statues and stone them. They were also where convicted offenders, especially fans and bloky, were beaten or scolded by angry mobs.
* Sophie Goodwill
	+ Behind her habit of blocking people, she was a fanatical bigot. She once wished death to the Bujanski Slavs and Wonaos, until her friends' condemnation forced her to abandon her supremacist beliefs.
	+ She later felt shame as she was still hated by some people in society.
* Alexander Leon
	+ Had a habit of backstabbing his friends and simply blocking them for his own amusement.
	+ After penance, he was shamed by his neighbours. Haunted by visions of his own offenses done again and again to his mind, he started writing books to help others handle being dealt by people like him.
* Karoline Maria Irovin
	+ Aged 24 during independence, known as "Bloka Number 9638". Detained in a block-town prison in Koscheigrad.
	+ An infamous fan artist who left behind tons of hateful comments about the Bujanski natives, and dozens of death threats and degrading insults comparing Bujanski and Wonao people to pigs. Was also notorious for using communist symbols to express her hatred.
	+ Convicted of:
		- "57 counts of wrongful blocks (as in "57 people complained about her")"
		- "harrassment of other users"
		- "whataboutism"
		- "glorification of colonial oppressors"
		- and "anti-Bujan hatred" and "treason".
	+ Notorious for her scowling mugshot shown in schools all over the kingdom.
	+ Karoline spent seven months in jail, being released on February 1893. During the blocktown, she started to wonder whether was her hate useful in life. Her penance was spent alone, making bricks to rebuild ruined neighbourhoods as a prisoner of war, until she was forgiven on November 1893, nine months later.

### 1950s Bujan

* Irapati
	+ Paxoti's rival who threatened to kill her after blocking her online, as a rival. She was arrested and jailed for harrassment and violent behaviour.
* Takasoka

## Glossary

### Bujanski:

* bezzačblok - "invalid block", an online block that has no valid reason
* blok - (Terran English, Late Ardeschen) an online block
	+ The term was used since Zvestarid times, so it may have came from Denlotian legal records.
	+ The only way for an online block to pass is by the person being blocked to have really committed a serious crime (like abusive behaviour, extremism) or harrassment. In fact, in Bujanski law, all online blocks are basically a report system that may also punish the reporter.
* blokbæsije, blobbæsije - the Terran or Maeranoi obsession with blocking people online who have not done anything wrong; madness
* blokgorod, blokkorod - a "blocktown", a prison where people punished for recklessly blocking other users are isolated from society
* blokkonik - a reckless user who irresponsibly blocks people who had done nothing wrong, an extremist
* blokobæs - an online user who irresponsibly blocks people without valid reasons
* Rasbloknik - (offensive) a fan of Broken Plates, stereotyped as an Internet fanatic who blocks and cheats people over mistakes; a "Blockerite".

### Eosome:

* jelkerep - "hurtful blocker", a person who wrongfully blocked another user online.
* jelregap - "house of the hurtful blocker", a blocktown prison
* -kidob - to obstruct, to block an online user.
* kitoppu - an online block
* re-ketop - one who blocks another user online.
	+ This is different from a jelkerep, because they have correctly identified a threat to themselves *and* society.
	+ For example, X blocks Y because Y has been acting in an uncomfortable, offensive manner. X and her friends screenshot Y's activity and lodge a report to the mods, confirming that Y is an offender and a threat to society. Therefore, X is a re-ketop, someone who is more normal than a "bloka" or "jelkerep".
	+ In another scenario, X blocks Y only because she finds Y to be "offensive". People point out to Y that some of his artworks were offensive, and so he apologises, but X hates Y and wants him to die. So X is considered a "jelkerep", who has blocked someone over a mistake *and* threatening to kill Y, committing a criminal offense in Bujanski law.
* Blokömronö, Blokonrök, Rekömjelna, Rejelkönno, Relkön - (offensive) a "Blockerite", a fan of Broken Plates who cheats other people

## Gallery

A bloka's mugshot.Sophie, a convicted bloka undergoing penance, was not allowed to board public transport as punishment for her abusive behaviour online.Alexander Leon, living in shame as his neighbours cursed him for blocking their friends over petty reasons.The house of a convicted bloka undergoing penance. The yellow flag represents penance, and the Virimvon flag shows that he did not want to be seen as a terrorist over his online misconduct. Outside, people wrote curses accusing him of terrorism and hatred of Bujan.
## Trivia

* There is a word considered worse than "bloka", or even the anti-Bujanski slurs, "gonnik" (a ghost), "uoka" (infidel, "heathen savage"), or "khol" (a slave): "æsukhol". It referred to one who committed deeds so horrible and stubborn, they became beyond forgiveness.
	+ In Terran speech, the "aesukhol" was simply an unwelcome, unpleasant person who wanted to cause trouble. In Bujan, the word became associated with people so stubborn, they either glorified war criminals or committed unforgivable abominations.
* One variant of this slur spelled "bloka" as "bl8ka", associating all bloky with the enemies of Bujan by adding the 8-symbol of the Tyrskans.

## See also

* Bujanski taboos
* July 1892 taboos
* Moral class
* Sophie Goodwill
* Orcs - a bogeyman in Bujanski folklore that is what anyone turns into if they were abusive
* Uoka, a supposed opposite used by Terrans against Bujanski for refusing to convert to their religions.