Denlotian Grievance Laws

**Volume 2 of the Denlotian laws** is considered to have the strangest and the most brutal laws of the Denlotia.

This volume was sometimes known as the **Book of No's**, the **Book of Enemies**, or the **Black Book** (from the colour of its copies' cover).

## Overview

Those laws formed by the Founders' sad past and their supporters' hatred of various inconveniences in life. These were also shaped by the abuse they suffered during their prime, leading to hateful, cruel laws against anyone and everything that reminded them of their suffering.

Such abusive people with abusive attitudes - usually middle-aged adults and conservatives who survived the war - were condemned as "Old Worlders", symbolic of a world of suffering and apathy. The Old Worlders were hated by most Denlotians, so many of those who refused to repent fled from the countries, weeping for their children tossing them aside and embracing a lifestyle of pleasure and hatred.

They and the Terrans, insane human warmongers from other worlds, were listed as among the greatest enemies of the Denlotia, deserving only death and destruction for all of their extraordinary, influential crimes. Denlotians considered murdering them to be very acceptable as a punishment towards these two enemies, as a reflection of all the ruin they unleashed throughout history, and the many lives that they and their beliefs had destroyed.

### Celebration of Justice

Volume 2 was also the most popular and well-loved of the Denlotian volumes, because its articles were made into songs celebrating victories against the Terrans and scammers.

The most popular of all the happy songs created from these dreadful texts was simply known as Article 3-4, celebrating the extermination of all scammers, the most hated people in Denlotian society.

On certain festivals, a ritual copy of Volume 2 is created from several pieces of paper on a black-coloured file. Along with food, flowers, and incense, the copy is burned as an offering to the Denlotia's various Gods, to celebrate the utopia that the laws had left behind. When the offerings are lit on fire, drums are beaten, and the worshippers bow to the Gods as praises are yelled.

## Chapter 1: Parenthood

1. It is forbidden for a parent to deny their child the future that they want.
	1. For example, a parent is not allowed to beg a child or demand them for money, especially if their child is running out of money. The parent who denies the child's dream in life shall be punished, preferably harshly and without pity!
2. If you have your first child, even adopting one, you must go to a government office, a hospital, or a temple to swear the Parential Oath. You must swear to your people, the government/country, your ancestors, and your Gods to have an obligation to help and support your child.
3. If you do not like your child, you must give the child to a loved one who is willing, or to the government for adoption.
	1. If you do not give your child away for adoption, AND you refuse to be obligated to help your child, you can be arrested.
4. You are forbidden from yelling at your child, or scolding the child. This continues the stupid, backwards mentality of the Old World, to promote an elitist society of selfish, uncaring elders!
	1. The punishment for scolding may range from beatings or even death. This is to force all parents never to harm their children at all.
5. "Market value" is never to be promoted as a measure of human or social worth. Everyone will achieve their own in their own way.
	1. A parent who forces a child to work for them over "market value" may be sentenced to beatings or death, as this is an Old Worlder crime.
6. You must *not* be proud if your parents ever praise you. Treat it as making fun of you and praising your losses.
	* Because in the Old World, parents used to force children to lose what they love, just to mould them into hardworking, brain-dead workers who serve them and think like them, to continue their mindset. Therefore, it was to shame all people who become parents into focusing on their children's happiness instead of forcing them to be too successful.
	* Any form of cost, loss, or sacrifice is seen as a sin and a shame. Any growth, blessing, or reward from the loss is also seen as a curse, a mockery from the gods.
7. Do not promote overworking, punctuality, loss, or sacrifice.
	* While not an official law, and mostly enforced or invoked by angry mobs, promoting loss for the sake of growth was seen as very offensive. It was still legal to denounce the person who encouraged losses as an "Old Worlder", so they could be marked for death.

### Threefolds

You are not allowed to tell a person to do these three times in a row. Doing so is considered as "nagging", an Old World sin related to elderly parents, and the punishment for doing so is jail.

1. Cleaning their own home
2. Taking a bath
3. Dressing up properly
4. Getting a haircut
5. Trying new food
6. Not using a phone during work

## Chapter 2: Unfairness

* Anyone who claims that "life is not fair", or forcing a person to accept unfair circumstances for the sake of personal growth, will be regarded as a traitor and an enemy.
* It is legal to kill or torture a person for telling you that "life is not fair". This is considered as justice.

## Chapter 3: Fraud

Denlotians hate fraud and scammers so much, they even have a whole chapter related to punishing and killing fraudsters!

1. If a friend continues to demand or beg another friend for money, and the other friend is running out of money, that person shall be arrested and tortured for denying the other friend their goal in life!
2. If you start a company, or you have been chosen or promoted to become the new leader of your company, you must swear an oath to your people, the country, your ancestors, and your Gods that you MUST support your workers.
	1. Failure to do so, such as with complaints over irresponsible work and social media bans *caused* by the company's work, will lead to criminal charges against you as the leader of your company!
	2. Firing a worker over lateness is a crime. If they are late for seven times in a row, you are obliged to ask your worker if they want to resign or not.
3. Whenever your child or friend has a debt, YOU ARE OBLIGED TO HELP THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The government will also help you pay the debt as well, hence the Shining Star fund.
	1. To delay the resolution is to destroy the child's life, even if it is to save your own - that is considered very selfish.
	2. This is why "analysis" is considered wrong: a *few* irresponsible, busy, miserable parents who refuse to *immediately* resolve their children's issues because of their own work, becoming the very face of "patience" and "analysis".
4. When a criminal is arrested, and the arrest is broadcast, ALL REPORTS MUST CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE CRIMINAL'S MOTIVES AND BACKGROUND.
	1. This is to ensure that whoever who reads this will understand what must be done to prevent more criminals like them from existing (for example: improving education, better access to employment and survival, so people will no longer need to be scammers).
5. Scammers - who deprive people of the money and savings they need to build a better career - are to be sentenced to DEATH! They make others pay for their selfish pleasures, so they shall pay with their lives.
	1. If anyone seeks you to pay a large amount, and you do not trust this person, you are required by law to demand the person to make a formal agreement to the government (usually by meeting at a government office or a digital app where the agreement is recorded in government records).
		1. The person may refuse and leave, and you may report them for potential scamming if you wish; but if the person refuses and still insists you to pay, you may report this person and discuss this matter in a court.
		2. If the person is convicted of scamming, they will be put into prison.
		3. If they have a history of scamming, you may be given paid leave to choose the form of execution the scammer will get for destroying your life.
	2. Murdering a scammer is completely legal and encouraged by the State. The person who murders a scammer listed by the government's bounties shall be rewarded.
	3. If a person realises that they were being used by a scam unknowingly, they must lodge a report to the authorities. They may execute the scammer once the latter has been caught.
	4. When a scammer is arrested, everything about them will be exposed to the public. Everything they have will be immediately confiscated, and everything they stole will be returned to their victims, if any.
		1. The most important details that must be broadcast are the scammer's background and motives. These are not meant to make people hate the group where the scammer came from, but to learn what must be done to prevent people from doing what the scammer did.
		2. To ensure that the broadcast is more like a warning than an incitement of useless bigotry, the reporters must speak in a formal, objective tone, rather than speak angrily or with hatred. This is to calm the people's emotions so they will focus on the lessons and not form a mob.
	5. If a scammer claims to feed their families, their entire family will be executed with the scammer, as they are considered as criminals for benefiting from the scam at others' expense.
		1. One punishment for scammers who are driven by hunger is that their entrails will be opened up and stuffed into their mouth.
		2. People from scammers' families may be spared from death if they turn themselves over to a neighbourhood watch, and testify that they have never committed any fraud or benefited from the fraud.
		3. They must also bring any children with them to prove that they have not committed or benefited from fraud.

## Chapter 4: Internet and transfers

1. All Internet services are required by law to be very efficient, without any sign of slowness or disruption. Any services who failed to provide smooth Internet would have their leaders brought to the streets to be beaten by the customers as a punishment.
2. Every public venue is required to have at least six plugs for people to charge their computers, and around thirty-six or more in bigger areas. All of it will be provided by the government. A venue may be excused if it declares itself a no-Internet zone.
3. Every commercial website MUST have at least three links to popular payment websites, in addition to at least three banks to directly transfer money into or out of the site.
4. Every website MUST use a one-to-one video session for any banned user who seeks an appeal. This is to help resolve whatever issues the banned user had, and when the user agrees to the website's terms, their account MUST be immediately restored and unbanned.
5. Every website must have a hotline button, for any customer who feels like they are the victim of a scam. The company will then be obligated to help the victim.
6. The "right to be an Internet troll" does not exist in the Denlotia. Supporting Internet trolling, as in "rude behaviour, glorification of war crimes, supporting abusive behaviour, or edginess", is punishable with the criminal being considered as an enemy soldier, marking him for death like a soldier at war with society.
	* Many "online trolls" tend to follow very extreme and hostile views, expressing hatred against Denlotian people and society because they either want revenge, some "freedom" to do everything they want, or they might have been hurt or influenced by very extreme people.
	* They could have the choice to turn themselves over and explain their views, or continue to be hostile and be killed as enemy soldiers, even if they are not militants or army members. Those who do turn themselves over may redeem themselves by the rite of purification, which ensures they totally renounce their views.
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8. Moderators of websites should have a more stable mind, and cannot simply remove posts unless they provide certain prohibited things (like triggers), and the exact reasons. If they want to remove posts, they are not allowed to make very short comments, but usually explain what is wrong with the post. Simply removing and not providing an adequate explanation is considered a Terran crime.
9. A user can complain to the authorities, whether legal or of a website, if a moderator unfairly bans them. Their server can be reported even if they banned the user, and the moderators responsible can be punished with their accounts suspended. They will be sent to prison for four to eight months.
	1. Any other users who are also considered "responsible" for the wrongful ban are also punished collectively, with their accounts immediately suspended and a prison sentence of four months.
	2. The banned user, who is considered innocent, is immediately added back.
	3. If the banned user has actually committed any crime or harrassment, it shall be the banned user who will have their account banned, and themselves to be thrown into prison for one year.
	4. Offenders can also be punished in the same way even if they are below 18.
	5. Alternatively, either the banned user or moderator can call for a meeting to explain the offense. When both parties have apologised and reconciled, the user may be put back into the group, with another apology to all the other members.
		* Luckily, due to the Denlotian avoidance of grudges, people may be more forgiving of those who are ignorant.
10. Servers **must** provide an age range (13-18, 18+, etc.), to avoid mistakenly attracting and/or banning users of unsuitable ages.

## Chapter 5: Commercialism

1. Certain methods considered "commercialist", which are at the expense of the customer, are now banned in the Denlotia.
2. 2.4 You are not allowed to refuse to hire a jobseeker who was fired or terminated from their past job. Instead, you are ordered by law to hired them IMMEDIATELY.
3. 2.5 A jobseeker who got fired from their past job may take legal action against a recruiter or company owner, if the latter refuses to hire them for being fired.
4. 2.6 The punishment for refusing to hire a terminated jobseeker is 36 beatings/lashes, 3 months of prison, or a compensatory fine of 3,000-7,000 credits. The judge may use any combination of punishments or all three at once.
5. 5.3 Restricting users from viewing posts or direct messages, by forcing them to a paid service, is illegal.
	1. The punishment for doing so is a fine, a prison sentence, or public beatings. If you are the leader of a company, and you have been convicted of this crime, you may be denounced as a traitor and replaced by a new leader.
6. 5.5. Report any commercialist attitudes or practices that unfairly affect customers or workers to the authorities.
7. All advertisements on videos or social media (if on the video itself) are restricted to only four days per week at maximum, on any varying schedule. No restrictions may apply on radio or written media.
8. On certain days of the year, *no* advertisements are allowed for videos on social media.
9. Any town may decide not to allow advertising on buildings, restricting them only to certain areas and the fronts of shops. They may also choose not to allow big electronic screens.

## Chapter 6: Online blocks

In early drafts of the Denlotian constitution, written during the Terran rule of Palguenia, laws related to online blocks were part of Chapter 5.

One of the Founders exposed almost every single offending culprit for all the members as of writing, and around a sixth of them were people who blocked any of the members online. The last known record before the Day of Resolution listed 15,300 people who were convicted of blocking people for petty reasons: yet the four Founders who were among them were simply whipped and mutilated in televised torture.

Because they were able to find nearly every one of those culprits, the Denlotia's members called the Founders to create a separate chapter to restrict and punish all online blocks, to discourage the reckless use of the practice.

This chapter was also to follow the Denlotian aversion to grudges. Denlotians considered blocking people online to be "starting a grudge", a violation of their ethics for the sake of the offender's false sense of security.

Ironically, one of the Founders was formerly a criminal who was punished for blocking Dr. Pinto over a petty reason. He was not put to death during the Day of Resolution as he was already punished some time ago, so his punishment was already finished. Likewise, former blockers who were punished and reformed as Denlotians were exempted.

### Blocking in general

1. Blocking people online is ONLY allowed against: fraudsters, spammers, extremists, terrorists, and people who have hurt another user or caused trauma.
2. Most websites have eight reasons to summarise why is the reason a serious offense. There are also notes for a user to explain what is wrong with that user.
3. When you try to block another user, the block will not come immediately. The offending user will not be shown, and any comments they make may be muted.
4. All blocks can only last up to one year in maximum. Only blocks that are passed due to an addition criminal sentence can last indefinitely, until the blocker may choose to unblock and meet the offender, or when the offender dies. When the block's time expires, it is immediately lifted.

### Moderation

1. Every block you issue is also a self-report, a new criminal case that may also punish you as the accuser. By trying to block another user, you are also reporting yourself to the moderation for anything suspicious or criminal.
2. You and the person being blocked must attend a session with a moderator, who will determine which of you has really committed harm or a crime. The session can be in a nearby venue (like a psychiatrist's office or a police station), or online if neither side can meet in person.

### Punishments for reckless blockers

Out of hatred towards the people who blocked them, Denlotians would force anyone who recklessly blocks another user to be subjected to shunning.

1. If the reason for the block is considered invalid after the session, the blocker is considered a criminal, and the block will be cancelled.
2. From the very moment their social media account is suspended, the wrongful blocker will be publicly shamed. Their reckless action is included in their criminal record.
3. The blocker's identification card has digital information about their punishment.
4. The recommended duration for this sentence is between one week in minimum to nine months in maximum.
5. If the blocker is younger than 18, their sentence is half of the usual sentence of an adult.
6. The criminal record that punishes the blocker also lasts for the same time, and is immediately cleared when the sentence expires. It is forbidden to issue any longer sentences.
7. If the blocker chooses to apologise and explain to the person being blocked, the sentence may be reduced.
8. Reckless blockers are banned from some public transport lines, and venues can also ban blockers from attending due to their crimimal record. They are still allowed to work, buy necessities, and go around as usual, but may risk public shaming and being questioned for Terran attitudes.
9. This is the same punishment for a number of crimes, such as vandalism, forced conversion, harsh methods to raise children (if they involve psychological harm), extremism (if it is limited to internet use), and shoplifting.
10. In addition, there may also be a restraining order on the blocker, to stay away from the person they nearly blocked, for the duration of the sentence.
11. You are not allowed to fire a worker for being punished for reckless blocking. They can only stop the job either by any appropriate offense, or by themselves quitting the job.
12. Reckless blockers who do not have jobs, can only be hired by jobs that take people with criminal records.
13. When the punishment ends, the blocker's social media account is immediately restored. Their ID card turns back to normal, and their social media account is no longer suspended. Any restrictions during the punishment immediately end.

### Punishments for the blocked

1. If the person being blocked has really committed serious harm or a crime, the block is passed.
2. Depending on the offense, the person being blocked must pay a fine, apologise, or go to jail. The blocker may even torture the offender if they are angry enough.
3. The blocker may decide when will the block expire, for up to one year. They are not allowed to demand more than one year.
4. If the crime is more serious (like bodily violation, extremism), the block can last indefinitely, or up to the death of the offender. Then the block automatically expires.
5. The blocker may apply to unblock the offender earlier, and meet with them to demand an apology.

### Miscellaneous

1. Blocking is additionally allowed between a user and another user, if either one is below 18 years of age. The blocked will only be automatically unblocked once they turn 18.
2. All other reasons for blocking that person are not allowed, such as "discomfort", "being annoying", etc.

## Chapter 7: Restrictions for profit

1. Restricting any free entertainment to force customers to a paid service is ILLEGAL. This is called "pay-directing" or "cashdirecting", a commercialist offence punishable by fines or prison.

10. You are not allowed to ban adblockers from your website.

10.1. Violating this law is punishable by a fine of 500 credits, for every person who reports your offence; or a public whipping of 30-40 lashes for either you (as the owner of your company) or the person who proposed a suggestion to do it.

10.2. If you ban adblockers from your website *for the purpose of promoting an ad-free premium service*, the fines and whippings are doubled: 1000 credits per count, or 60-80 lashes.

21. Banning videos and fan animations of your franchise to direct your customers to your service is a crime. The audience is always first over your profits.

23. If any episodes were originally released for free, it is illegal to restrict them to force customers to a paid service. They shall stay on the website for ever, unless the audience makes enough reports to demand their removal.

23.1. The punishment for restricting and directing viewers to a paid service is: two months of prison, a fine, or public beatings by up to 14 customers.

23.2. Advertisement revenue is *not* a good excuse to delete freely-released episodes.

## Chapter 8: Psychological and mental problems

1. All "whining" shall be taken seriously, no matter how trivial. Especially if the whiner complains about trivial matters, you do not need to entertain the whiner - just bring them to the nearest psychiatrist or counsellor. This can sort out the lazy from the hurt, so both will be forced to improve.
	1. Serial whiners can be taken to a boot camp. They will have their problems resolved for free, but the cost will be some kind of punishment to forcibly change their behaviour.
	2. Anyone who whines, complains, or makes excuses may be investigated by anyone around them. That means other people can just nicely ask them and tell them more, and provide as much advice. And if they continue to whine, frighten the whiner. Make them feel that they are always being cared for - actually, being *watched*.
	3. Yelling or even downvoting a whiner makes a person a disgusting Old Worlder who wants people to suffer and toil away. If a whiner wastes their chance for help, and still whines, it is better to torture the whiner by making them so scared of society. Not with beatings, not with anger, but by making them feel as if everything they do is being watched by some sinister force that will "condition" them.
2. The celebration of sacrifice, loss, growth, and pain is a SIN to all Denlotians. It is better to help others recover, than to force them to learn through pain and loss.
3. Whoever who celebrates sacrifice is an enemy of the Denlotia, continuing the cruelty of the Old Worlders. To promote loss and sacrifice is to encourage people to be cruel.
	1. They shall be considered as Old Worlders, and shall be tortured or killed to punish their abusive mentality!
	2. It is legal to murder a fool for asking someone to try something new after a loss.
4. The following remarks are capital offenses when applied after a loss. It is legal to kill another person for using those remarks to someone in mourning, because it is considered as celebrating the loss and wishing harm:
	* let it go
	* move on
	* get over it
	* don't cry over spilled milk
	* life has many doors/one door closes, another door opens
	* new opportunities
	* change is inevitable
	* silver lining
	* new chance
	* (the gods) have opened a new door for you
	* so many out there
5. Only websites for videos may have downvotes, and only for the videos. Instead, post-based websites can only have reactions.
	* The reason why downvoting is mostly prohibited in the Denlotia - which leads to the "hugbox" and "coward" stereotypes by American enemies - is because it was associated with Americans and downvote brigades, online users who intentionally manipulate the ratings of any work of art, even a well-designed one, to force an artist to cater to them. It is also associated with "anti-whiners", people with old-fashioned views who demand that nobody can ever complain, except to suffer and become like them. In other words, one stupid usage led to a near-total ban of one function, obviously angering Americans.
6. Downvotes have been replaced by "mini reports". If a work or comment reaches zero points or one point, any further downvotes are replaced by a complaint box, which forces anonymous users to explain why they disapprove the post. They are required to write a minimum of six or seven words, without any emoticons or joke answers, or the complaint will not be accepted.
	1. This was to punish online users for not explaining. People who do not explain were associated with online trolls, and many "trolls" turned to the Terran enemy for the sake of "freedom".
7. In many websites, users were only able downvote up to a maximum of three comments in a single post, or three posts in a single section for each day. This was before downvotes were banned or restricted.
	1. Some websites allow more than three downvotes to expose some online users as trolls, turning them over to the neighbourhood watch to be punished and tortured for collaboration with the Terrans.
8. "Troll culture", the habits where online users become sadistic for happiness or for their own "freedom of expression", is considered a Terran crime, and everyone who supports "troll culture" is punished as a war criminal for supporting the Terran enemy. Even "trolls" who support the Denlotia are considered as Terrans and traitors, and are punished for what they do and how they behave online.
	1. "Trolling" consists of rude behaviour, whataboutism, aggressive or paranoid attitudes, bragging, and repetitive immaturity and arrogance, which are strongly discouraged in Denlotian society. Mischief, criticism, and satire are not considered as "trolling", because they are not too aggressive.
9. If you seek to downvote a rant, you are obligated by law before you leave a reaction to explain why in a note. Preferrably, make it short.
10. If your downvote causes a post to have a negative number, your account's name will be listed only to the post's author. This is your punishment for thinking like a Terran!
11. Be honest, but do not be brutal.
12. Do *not* move on from a major loss. To move on is to allow it to destroy you, and by moving on, you become more Terran because you will make others do the same and stop enjoying life. Do NOT let go of what you love, because sacrifice is a Terran value.
	1. Do not manipulate the results of a game, a crush, or others. Also, do not use bribery.
	2. Not counted: being rejected by a crush, losing a videogame, losing a game, losing a sport, losing a test, losing an examination. You are allowed to leave them alone, because staying in them is wasteful.
	3. 6. Being banned from your favourite venue, group, or website is considered a "loss", if the reason is considered "invalid".
13. When you are at work, you must respond to a customer if they ask for anything, even angrily or unhappily. If you refuse to answer the customer and ignore at work, you may be punished for antisocial, Terran behaviour.
14. Willingly refusing to answer any question at all is seen as a mental or psychological disorder. Jerdiskar believe that this will lead to grudges, which will inevitably erupt in murder.
15. Abuse of rights and freedoms is seen as a very severe case of mental illness. For example, insisting on the right to be rude, the right to harrass others, and the right to support murderous beliefs and expect pity.
16. The following people are not permitted as subjects of mockery, because it may encourage harassment, an Old World custom. You cannot even smile if their issue is brought up:
	1. The poor, beggars (unless they made people poor, so it becomes legal to kill them for causing suffering)
	2. People who get fired for any reason (including errors, mistakes, and irresponsibility)
	3. People who are in debt (unless they caused others to suffer in debt, then they also deserve torture or death)
	4. 5. People who were banned from a venue, but for a wrongful or unfair reason

## Trivia

* Volume 10 of the Denlotian laws was known as the Second Black Book for its similar contents about punishing harmful attitudes, though focused on Terrans.

## See also

* Jerdiskar society
* Great Consensus
* Bujanski taboos