Federal Body of Consigahria

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This is an uncomplete list (draft) of federal and territorial laws in Consigahria. The list references "citizens" in a masculine form, for example "if a citizen believes his life or freedom is in jeopardy," but in this nation, the term is used in lawmaking as an abstract replacement for "it," which in English would both be more conceptually appropriate and impolite.

The list will be updated as necessary.

Federal laws

Overview

All people who are within Consigahrian borders at any time for any reason are legally considered "in Consigahria" or "within Consigahria", and are legally classified into five groups: residents, non-residents, and tourists; and prisoners, and inmates. Residents are people who either were born within the nation, or who took steps to become legal citizens. Non-residents are people who are currently taking steps to become legal citizens; are inmates; are people who emigrated to the nation and are not taking and have not taken steps to become legal citizens; are people who have lost their legal status as citizen or demi-citizen by renouncing their citizenship; or are people whose parents are verifiable Consigahrian citizens who want to house them permanently. Tourists are people who live within the nation temporarily, allowed by visa. Minors have reduced rights as citizens; and prisoners only retain a handful of rights.

Prisoners and inmates basically have the same intrinsic rights: the right to live (which is forfeited if the offender participates in a potentially fatal confrontation of any kind), the right to eat (which can be voluntarily forfeited up to seven days), the right to remain silent (which is inalienable), and the right to abode (the right to exist as a proper prisoner or inmate - in a proper cell with running water, unless restrictions apply). Prisoners and inmates do not have the right to choose in exactly which prison they will be incarcerated in, in exactly which cell they will reside in, and exactly with whom they are to be domiciled with. They do not get a choice in food - they may only choose to eat or not to eat, and even that is restricted, because there's a seven-day food-strike allowance, and nourishment is necessary for someone to get and keep a paying job within the institution. They do not get a choice in how many hours a day they are allowed out of their cell or outside in the yard. They do not get a choice in what color uniform they wear, and no choice in whether or not they will wear a uniform. At the risk of redundancy, the also do not get to choose when they will leave the institution.

All instances of the word "state" as it refers to state-level power is in reference to the Territories. For example, "state-owned public property" refers to property owned by a Territory.

All instances of the words "inmate" and "prisoner" are colloquially interchangeable; however, the difference between a prisoner and an inmate is very clear. A prisoner belongs to a state-owned jail, perhaps in a city that affords a nice view from the offender's cell and offers decent food; whereas, an inmate belongs to a federal penitentiary, where the food is slop, and there are no nice vistas because every prison is windowless and in the middle of nowhere. The locations, styles, and priorities of these institutions are individualized by the NatPrI (National Prison Industries, Inc.) under legal mandate of the federal government.

Essential rights

The Consigahrian Federal Body lists seven essential rights which every person has while in national legal jurisdiction.

Life, body, and property

Every citizen has the right to live. A citizen loses this right if he threatens the life of another citizen using a deadly weapon, or claims the life of another citizen using a deadly weapon; and regains this right as soon as he is within custody of a police agency or a government agency. A prisoner, federal or territorial, has the right to live, until he violates this right of another person: no citizen has the right to threaten the life of another and expect not to have his own life threatened in kind.

Every citizen, alive or dead, has the right to his own property. To "have the right to one's own property" is a phrase legally defined as the right to have one's property handled a certain way, or not handled a certain way. For instance, if an example of property is an acre of land, the land's legal owner has the right to restrict access to the public, or to do whatever he wants with that land as he sees fit; or if another example of property is a fish tank, the tank's legal owner has the right to maintain the fish within, or to let them die, or to obliterate the tank altogether for no reason at all and kill them. Property is defined as any item, small or large, which belongs to a specific citizen or to a legally-specific group. The ownership must be documented on paper more than twice, must be registered with the government (local or federal), and must be verified by a third party by date and signature. Originally, "property" was a vague term applying to all things a person may own. Today, the term is no longer a loose one; it applies to everything of monetary value, including personal items and animals (humans, anthropomorphic animals, and feral animals), although all have respective rights exclusive to them.

For instance, a parent may legally expel his 17-year-old daughter from his household if he chooses. But the teenager may also attest the legality of his decision with a police officer. If the teenager is found to have been abused in some way, the parent may have to pay a hefty fine, or may lose legal custody of his child altogether. The same parent may also choose to shoot and kill her dog in remuneration, but the child may attest the legality of this decision as well, and if the dog was found to have been abused, the parent may have to pay another heavy fine, or may have to serve a prison sentence for severe animal cruelty. A better route to go would be to destroy the teenager's cell phone: cell phones don't live and don't feel, and so there isn't a law against harming it as a parental figure, and the teenager can't claim misuse, theft, or damage of personal property since she, a minor, couldn't legally claim she owned the phone in the first place. However, an older brother or cousin, for example, doesn't have the same right and may be fined or even jailed for damage to personal property.

A legally-specific group is defined as a group of one, two, or more individuals in legal consolidation and/or partnership. All legally-specific groups are on government file.

A citizen loses the right to his property if he is legally arrested and detained in excess of six months.

Every citizen, alive or dead, has the right to his own body. To "have the right to one's own body" is a phrase legally defined as the right to have one's body (if alive) or cadaver (if deceased) handled or not handled in a specific way. For instance, a deceased adult may choose to have his body cremated or buried in the earth (or, a deceased child's parent(s)/guardian(s) may choose for him); and a legal adult (or, under supervision of or with written permission from his parent(s)/guardian(s), a minor) may choose to have their body bedazzled in jewelry and tattoos, and may even consent to adult activities such as consensual coitus and ingesting intoxicants. It is illegal at the federal level to forcibly deny a legal adult this right, with the exception that a manager or owner of a business may deny service to anybody for any reason with or without explanation.

Anthropomorphic animals share all the basic rights humans do. They are legally allowed to use the same sex-segregated restrooms as humans, enter and/or inhabit the same buildings, break bread together, and engage in recreation with one another. While anthropomorphic animal/human sexual and romantic activity is largely frowned upon in society, legally, there is no law against it; however, romance and sexual activity between humans and feral animals, and between anthropomorphic and feral animals, are prohibited by federal law and may carry sentences of up to 10 years of imprisonment, and may include lifetime supervision.

To consider anthropomorphic animals and humans "property" is a hate crime, and a person felony and federal offense. The hate crime is punishable by up to five years of imprisonment; and the federal offense is punishable by life imprisonment. It becomes a federal offense when possession of human or anthropomorphic "property" includes the intent to sell or otherwise profit monetarily. As such, citizens are protected from trafficking and hate crimes by their right to carry concealed firearms and weapons, to engage in combat in public, and to kill in self defense. However, hate crimes do not justify loss of life or property.

Property is legally defined as an inanimate object, portion of land, or feral animal that has been created or purchased by a citizen. In order to prove that a citizen owns a piece of property, technically speaking, it has to be documented in the form of a receipt or photographic evidence. However, items worth less than R$100 are considered trivial and are usually awarded to the individual if uncontested. Items such as motor vehicles and electronics are also usually awarded if without contest.

Every citizen has the right to own and carry explosives and firearms, as long as they have the proper permits to do so. Illegal possession or use of a firearm can carry a harsh penalty: up to ten years of imprisonment, and up to a R$100,000 fine. Illegal possession or use of an explosive can carry an even harsher penalty, depending on the number of injuries and casualties involved. If a teenager takes a bomb to the middle of the desert because he "loves to blow stuff up," and he explodes a car just to watch the high-speed footage in slow motion, as long as he has a bomb-maker's permit and the rights to the vehicle, as long as nobody is injured, the act is legal. The moment someone becomes injured as a direct or indirect result of the explosion, the act becomes highly illegal if the victim(s) press charges. Assault by shrapnel carries the same penalty as attempted murder: 15 years of state or federal imprisonment, depending on the state of aggravation in the mindset of the defendant.

It is illegal at the federal level to carry explosives on airplanes and other public transit systems. It is also illegal to carry explosives within or near the walls of a prison. This is a punishable offense that may result in death or a 10-year jail sentence plus lifetime supervision. Pilots, public transit operators, and air marshals are permitted and encouraged to carry loaded firearms at all times. It is also a federal offense for any citizen (correctional officers exempt) to carry firearms inside or near the walls of a prison. The penalty is either death or 20 years of imprisonment. In these cases, death is legal if preventative action is taken immediately. If malicious intent can be proven, the defendant's killer may be tried for murder.

Right to Lawful Contract Act of 2131

A lawful contract contains...

  • a short, concise title.
  • a short, concise summary in two sentences or less.
  • a complete and thorough explication of the contract's terms.
  • a dated signature of all agreeing parties, including at least one witness, constituting authorizing signatures.
  • a dated signature or marking of initials (authorizing signature) below any addenda.

A lawful contract does not contain...

  • handwriting, except for authorizing signatures, except in the case where the entire contract is handwritten in pen.
  • additional addenda or notes, especially unauthorized by signatures of both original parties.
  • watermarks, except if the contract was created by a government or state agency.

A minor (any person under the age of 18) cannot engage in a lawful contract. Engagement in a lawful contract is defined as willfully taking part in a legal agreement by voluntary physical authorizing signature. If a minor engages in a contract, the contract is null and void. A feral animal also cannot engage in a lawful contract, nor can a plant, nor can any inanimate object, nor can any deceased person. (A deceased person's body becomes the property of his spouse, or of his oldest child, whomever is older.) (A minor may engage in a lawful contract as long as with a cosigner; this cosigner must be an adult, and must be a parent or legal guardian of the minor.)

An unborn child, or a child not yet conceived, does not have any legal rights as per federal law, and cannot engage in a lawful contract. Until the child is born, he is a constituent of his mother's body and nothing more. (Unborn children cannot engage in a lawful contract, even with a parental cosigner.)

Weaponry

Every adult citizen (age 18 and over) has the right to bear and/or conceal pistols and semi-automatic firearms both on public property and private property. Every adult citizen also has the right to take the life of anybody who aims their firearm at him. Every adult and adolescent citizen (age 15 and over) has the right to bear and/or conceal bladed weaponry both on public property and private property. The use of concealed weaponry is not illegal in the case where the victim perceives his freedom, property, or personal safety is at risk. Weaponry is specifically illegal on the property of government-owned buildings (staff exempt).

Drugs and Alcohol

Legal restrictions of the possession of alcohol are imposed by the Consigahrian government onto its citizens in four aspects: on state-owned property, on government-owned property, and on private property; as well as where safety laws are concerned, which are in place to maintain law and order. These laws are the same laws which govern all drug use within federal jurisdiction.

Criminal negligence is to place a person, including yourself, in a situation where bodily harm is likely. Therefore, it is illegal to operate heavy machinery or drive an automobile under the influence of an intoxicant to an unsafe degree. It's specifically illegal to have an open container of alcohol in the car while you're driving, whether it's empty or not, or whether you're drinking it or it's just been sitting there a few days. That's punishable by a restriction of your driving privileges for six months. The number of months doubles per repeated offense.

Drinking and driving (operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol), as well as driving under the influence of an intoxicant to a level of impairment (operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant), are seemingly harmless, but are actually serious offenses. If caught, first-time offenders will lose driving privileges for six months. The number of months triples per repeated offense. Irrespective of the defendant's criminal record or legal statuses, a person who drives under the influence of an intoxicant and kills a person is to be tried for every law he broke; and even if he is acquitted by a jury of his peers and a justice who chose to have mercy on him, he still must forfeit his driving privileges forevermore.

Generally, on public property, which is owned by the government but unregulated except by the Ministry of Law and Order, possession and use of illicit drugs are not specifically illegal. This includes alcohol and tobacco, but not illicit drugs. Illicit drugs are defined an addictive substance in excessive amount, either for private use or distribution. Distribution of illicit drugs is highly punishable: first-time offenders are acquitted, but repeat offenders go to federal prison for life.

On state-owned property, drug use of any kind is prohibited. Use or possession of drugs of any kind on state-owned property (legally defined as property owned by a city, county, or territory, except where considered "public property"), except by doctor's orders, is a misdemeanor offense. You can't enter a children's park or bank or grocery store and light up a fag, much less crack open a beer. The degree that possession of a drug is criminal depends on the drug's class--methamphetamine, for example, is illegal to possess on state-owned property, whereas tobacco is so noncriminal that it's basically ignored; although, if you smoke or drink rum in front of a public school, which are mandated by law to have zero-tolerance policies toward alcohol and drugs, you might hear from their security staff: "leave, or we're calling the cops." And that's "might," meaning most schools won't even bother to warn you before a cop creeps up behind you. If you're caught smoking a cigarette or drinking a beer within a school zone, you can be fined up to 500,000 ruices (about NS$980,000). If you're caught drinking hard liquor or doing an illicit drug in a school zone, you can be fined up to the same amount and jailed for up to six months. To get away unpunished, you would need a prescription from a doctor--a doctor validly accredited in Consigahria--which specifically says that you (the patient) have no choice but to do the drug at that specific time, and the fact that you had done the drug in a school zone would have to be due to that. Not even the Prime Minister would be exempt from this law.

However, if you are of royal status, you are likely to be exempt from this next law, though not in a technical sense. On government-owned property, it's illegal to possess or use a drug of any kind except by doctor's written consent (prescriptions written on the typical hospital/clinic visit summary suffices). Unlike the exceptions for prohibition that exist for state-owned property, a prescription won't be a saving grace. The Prime Minister and the royal staff are known for smoking cannabis during their free time (keep in mind that the Prime Minister lives in his place of work alongside his family); however, the Corporal Service, which serves to protect the Royal Family and royal staff, routinely enforce very strict staff drug protocols and fire anybody who partakes in a drug without a prescription, with the exception of alcohol. Those with government-given titles are considered royalty--landowner-slavers whose plantations or factories are a national cash cow, for example the owners of the Consigahrian Automobiles and Motors company's 158 plantations, are generally affiliated with the Royal Family on a personal level, and so the police dares not to fine or imprison them, except for people felonies such as theft, murder, etc.

However, on private property, the criminality of use of drugs is determined by the landowner. If you decide to move to Farrinchessie, a slum of Vermillion City, because it seems very affordable and convenient, and it turns out that the adults of the neighboring household are addicted to methamphetamine and they visibly have children, if you call the police in concern for the children, they will certainly perform a welfare check. This can turn out a few ways. In most cases, the police will contact the landowner; but if the landowner has no problem with methamphetamine usage on his property, even though there are children present, then the police can't make a drug bust, because methamphetamine is actually legal to have as a medication. It can be purchased at drug clinics in small doses, and doctors do occasionally prescribe it, in which case a patient, or potentially a meth addict, can get it for free, similar to getting liquid methadone to treat an addiction to heroin. That can make drug cases complicated. In order to make an arrest, the police will need a warrant in order to prove that the adults of that household do not have prescriptions for methamphetamine, as well as recorded media of some kind depicting the adults using or having used the drug without a prescription in the presence of children. (Like many illicit drugs that are easy to abuse, methamphetamine can be a medicine. While it's made differently, methamphetamine is given under the trade name Desoxyn, a treatment for ADHD, narcolepsy, and exogenous obesity; to qualify for Desoxyn, a patient must meet those criteria - the patient must have ADHD, narcolepsy, and exogenous or morbid obesity, and must not have anger management problems or a history of drug or alcohol abuse.)

In the case that a landowner doesn't know that his tenants are alcoholics, have children, and are abusive to their children because of their dependency on alcohol, welfare checks can be performed on request. This request can be made by anybody. Usually, after an assessment of the situation determines that the home is unsafe due to alcoholism and physical and/or verbal abuse, the children are removed from the home immediately and taken into police custody, at which time the children become what is called dependent of the state. This means that the government is essentially the sole legal guardian, the parents are stripped of their legal rights to keep and maintain their children, and the children come to be in legal custody. In much the same way, the parents are delivered to jail for their crimes, and the children are delivered to an orphanage; both parent and child wait to be seen by a judge. In this case, the government delegates authority to the territory (state) via the ruling of the Supreme Court, which delegates authority to the county to keep the child. Basically, a judge sees each child--each child has their own individual legal case--and determines which orphanage to send him to. Each county has at least one federally-funded orphanage, usually within, towering above, or buried underneath a hospital or school, and all of the hundreds of thousands of orphanages contain over 2.5 million children ages 20 and under; so vacancies aren't a dime a dozen. On the grounds of and within these orphanages, all drug use is prohibited (except, of course, by a doctor's prescription) and punished to the furthest extent of the law. That includes alcohol use. Unless you are a licensed physician delivering prescribed medicine, introducing a drug--cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco included--into a federally-funded institution meant to house dependents of the state is a felony offense punishable by 10 years in federal prison. Introducing a drug--cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco included--into a federally-funded institution meant to house inmates is also a federal offense, but its consequences are harsher: 15 years in federal prison, and 10 years of parole after serving your sentence.

Consigahria's domestic policy toward drugs is, in cases where preemption doesn't stop predilection, it's better to reeducate than to punish. That basically means that drug lords are hastily imprisoned, whereas addicts - essentially seen as their victims - are rehabilitated if they voluntarily seek rehabilitation. This goes for pretty much any addictive substance, as harmless as chewing gum, as mild as alcohol, as deadly as scopolamine.

Education, healthcare, and employment

Every citizen has the right to go to school for free, to study whatever they like, for as long as they like. Every citizen does not have the right to employment: to work, a citizen must take and pass several federal exams; and to operate a motor vehicle, or to professionally handle food, or to operate heavy machinery, a citizen must do the same. It is not illegal to require an individual be a certain age or to have certain experience to be considered for employment; but it is specifically illegal to deny employment to an individual based on his sexual orientation or sexual identity. It is also specifically illegal for a licensed practitioner of medicine to deny free healthcare, including first aid, to any individual especially because of personal bias.

Property

Public property is defined as any Consigahrian soil which is not claimed by a private entity, such as an individual, a corporation, or a small local company. All public property is claimed, owned, and maintained by the Consigahrian government, which delegates power to individual Territories, which delegate power to counties. The government gives provisional government to certain metropolitan areas, such as Vermillion City Metropolitan Area, which divide themselves as they see fit (with the exception of Vermillion City, which was centrally planned). Cities effectively own their own land as given to them by the federal government, and the cities sell the land to landowners, permitting them to build houses, apartments, skyscrapers, etc., up to code, and to dwell in these buildings. Thus, we see market expansion and city growth. The division between the land a city owns and the land it has sold to a citizen is the division between the city's state-owned public property and the citizen's private property. The division between the land the city has been given and the land the federal government owns is the division between state-owned property and federal property. Examples of federal property include government buildings, landmarks, nature reserves, national forests, national parks, all waterways, and all interstate highways.

Public schools

Public schools must...

  • have extensive counseling programs for troubled students.
  • have a list of clearly, concisely defined rules their students are expected to follow.
  • are required to reprimand students who do not follow aforementioned rules.
  • are allowed to spank their students on the buttocks or thighs with a wooden paddle no more than 20 times for every two offenses.
  • require their students to wear uniform lanyards and matching bar-coded identification cards.
  • close their campuses during school hours.
  • require motor vehicles to drive no more than 25 mph while on or near their property.
  • specialize each student in literacy, mathematics, combat, and life training classes, as well as two or three other classes of the student's choice.
  • separate each class by grade.
  • feed each student at least once a day, during a "free period" or similar concept (e.g. for one period of seven, the student would relax with friends and eat food from the school's cafeteria in a designated non-classroom setting on-campus).
  • employ as many people as possible without overcrowding the building on a daily basis, bankrupting the school, or putting the students in danger.
  • require their staff to report all crimes committed on school property (including the adjacent sidewalks and roadways) to the school board and nearby police department as soon as possible.
  • require their counselors or psychiatrists to never disclose information to the school or its superiors, a student's parent, or any other person, agency, or other entity without the legality being confirmed on written, signed, and dated appropriate paperwork. (Exempt agency: the Operatives' Division.)
  • have at least one room (at least 5 x 10 meters) designated for students to relax.
  • have at least one gymnasium.
  • have at least one student-accessible water fountain per 100 students.
  • have at least one room designated for staff to relax and catch up on their work.
  • permit staff to relax without students for at least one period.
  • permit their students to engage in violent confrontations, as long as each confrontation is one-on-one and is not lethal; and its security staff must break up or avoid any confrontations which are not acceptable under this rule.
  • prohibit students and staff from carrying weapons of any kind, including makeshift weapons, toys, and lookalikes.
  • prohibit students and staff from gang activity of any kind, especially gang-related bullying and violence.
  • prohibit students from all sales, purchases, distribution, obtaining, usages, or propagation of illicit drugs or illicit drug use, including the display of propaganda.
  • prohibit all sexual conduct on or near campus, or on public property, or in view of the public.
  • prohibit smoking and vaping of all kinds inside the schoolhouse or within 10 meters of school grounds.

Security

Every citizen has the right to fence off his property, and to use any force he deems necessary to protect his property and family. For instance, an 18-year-old young man who thinks he sees a burglar climbing over his father's fence is legally able to take his rifle and shoot the intruder before he touches the ground; but if after the shooting he finds it's his cousin, or a police officer, or another government worker, he will be charged with manslaughter. If he fires twice or more and doesn't miss, he will be charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. If he fires at and/or kills a police officer or federal agent, he will be charged with either murder or attempted murder, depending if the victim died or not; there is a separate charge for killing a government worker, and another for killing a government officer, but the kid doesn't qualify for either of these crimes because he legitimately thought he was killing a thief or murderer. If the young man was a minor, he definitely would have qualified.

A 15- or 17-year-old citizen has the right to use a sharp or otherwise deadly projectile to protect himself against a threat, but not against a potential threat. A 14-year-old child, or another individual deemed legally handicapped (except those with disabilities which do not affect the brain) of any age, does not have this right.

Class A Felonies

Any citizen commits a person felony (legally, "Class A Felony") by engaging in the following criminal acts:

  • Murder
  • Voluntary abortion
  • Treason
  • Forced surgery
  • Rape
  • Sodomy
  • Sexual abuse
  • Unlawful sexual penetration
  • Unlawful sexual penetration with a foreign object
  • Aggravated assault
  • Aggravated battery
  • Manslaughter
  • Cruelty to a feral animal
  • Vehicular homicide
  • Arson
  • Aggravated theft
  • Tax evasion
  • Fraud
  • Kidnapping I
  • Manufacture, sale, distribution, or possession with intention of distribution of illicit drugs
  • Grand larceny
  • Grand theft
  • Vandalism of federal property
  • Treason
  • Criminal abduction
  • Criminal obstruction of a legal investigation
  • Perjury
  • Copyright infringement
  • Child pornography
  • Mail fraud
  • Parole or probation violation
  • Threatening an official (police officer, judge, attorney, priest, etc.)

All Class A Felonies warrant life sentences in all cases, irrespective of the defendant's legal statuses. When the defendant was arrested for committing a Class A Felony, the defendant was stripped of his right to legal status. The only case in which a person is stripped of his right to legal status is during his arrest for committing a Class A Felony. Plea bargains for first-time offenders often reduce the severity of Class A Felonies, though only by 10 years per charge. For example, being a victim of Rape I (rape in the first degree) is commonplace for those who didn't attend self-defense class in public school. Rape I and Sex Pen I (unlawful sexual penetration with a foreign object in the first degree) often occur together. Of course, both of these would put a defendant away for life. Life sentences in Consigahria constitute eighty-year sentences--the maximum sentence for both of these offenses is 160 years, an effective life sentence. If we add on an attempted murder charge, the defendant will be sentenced to death--quoting the late Prime Minister Davis V: "three strikes, you're out"--unless, of course, he was acting in self-defense, and it could be proven that she had tried to solicit him for sex as a prostitute, before he allegedly raped her for a long time. In this case, prosecutors would probably offer the defendant a plea bargain, the extent of which is dependent on the judge's professional opinion of the defendant's character. Let's put some more color on the picture. Let's suppose the plaintiff had been recorded blackmailing the defendant shortly before the altercation which resulted in the plaintiff being raped. The judge may have pity. In this case, the judge might rule that the defendant is not guilty of Rape I, but of Rape II. Rape II is not a Class A Felony, unless in the same offense he is charged with another sex-related people crime.

People convicted of a person felony are immediately classed as a "prisoner" (state-owned prisons) or "inmate" (federally-owned prisons) and, if they were not a Consigahrian-born citizen, lose their status as a citizen. Sentences vary per offense, and most judges take into account the individual's criminal history. For defendants with rap sheets characterized by violence or sex crimes, usually the maximum penalty is enforced. After imprisonment, the consequences convicted felons face may include disenfranchisement, exclusion from obtaining a visa or a professional license to legally operate, exclusion from purchasing and possessing firearms, ammunition of any kind, or body armor, ineligibility to serve in jury, ineligibility for government assistance or welfare, post-imprisonment supervision for up to 80 years, and deportation (if the individual is not a native citizen).

Prisoners, inmates, and non-citizens are not protected under the same trafficking laws which protect citizens. If you are born within Consigahria, you are automatically granted permanent citizenship which cannot be revoked by any court anywhere in the world. The only way citizenship can be taken away from a person is if that person was not born in Consigahria but commits a Class A Felony in Consigahria and is sentenced to prison, or if a person commits multiple Class A Felonies and is sentenced to life (or to the remainder of their life) in prison irrespective of their birthplace.

Class B Felonies

Any citizen commits a Class B Felony by engaging in the following criminal acts:

  • Manslaughter (a homicide that occurs in the heat of passion)
  • Robbery (theft that involves the use of force, but without hurting a victim)
  • Arson
  • Distribution of narcotics/controlled substances/illicit drugs
  • Possession of narcotics/controlled substances/illicit drugs with intent to sell
  • Attempted class A felony, failed
  • Kidnapping II
  • Rape II
  • Aggravated sexual assault (a sexual assault that occurs under extreme circumstances, such as insanity in the defendant, but does not qualify as rape)
  • Reckless homicide (the defendant kills with extreme indifference for others' lives, such as in racing away from the police)
  • Assault with a deadly weapon

The minimum mandatory sentencing for a Class B Felony is 25 years. The maximum sentence is 80 years.

Drug laws are slightly different when it comes to punition. To sell an illegal drug to a man is a Class B Felony, especially if the drug is potentially lethal. In this case, the drug dealer could serve 25 years minimum per offense: distribution, and possession with intent to sell. That's a minimum mandatory fifty-year sentence. Again, the maximum sentence is life imprisonment. Usually, unless the victim dies, or unless the defendant has a long history of drug-related crimes, the maximum sentence will be carried out very sparingly.

Arson can be handled in many different ways. A juvenile delinquent without a criminal record who manufactures and uses molotov cocktails will probably receive a slap on the wrist, and tax money (and perhaps insurance payments) will pay for the damages. However, if the juvenile did have a criminal record, comprised of one petty theft, he would be sentenced to two years in prison. If his criminal record included a felony, he would be sentenced to the minimum mandatory sentence for Arson I (first degree arson): 10 years. If his criminal record was characterized by multiple felonies, no matter what class, he would be sentenced to the maximum mandatory sentence for Arson I: 25 years to life.

25 years to life is a sentence carried out in Consigahria that has a more open-ended resolution. Cases of this nature vary. Sometimes, the offender will serve 25 years and get out of prison immediately. In cases where the offender wasn't a good prisoner, the offender will serve 40 years, 15 years past his release date, paroled only two years past the day he finally chose to make better decisions.

Parole is offered to rehabilitated offenders who have served the minimum prison terms of their sentence.

An example of sexual assault would be a man openly groping the chest of a woman he doesn't even know, then continuing to make aggressive sexual advances at her. The penalty for Ag Sex Assault (aggravated sexual assault) is five to ten years in prison. If the offender touched her bare breast or bare crotch, or if he in any way penetrated her - even so much as a fingertip, then he would qualify for Rape II (rape in the second degree) and possibly some other charges. The minimum mandatory sentencing for Rape II is 7 years, and the maximum mandatory sentencing is 25 to life. If the offender succeeded in fully penetrating her with his Dick Cheney, he would qualify for Rape I.

Under construction.

Religion

The nation of Consigahria was created by a devout Jewish population, and will continue to be an avowedly devout Jewish population. However, once on Consigahrian soil, every being has the right to their religion and creed, and has the right not to have that religion or creed violated. This does not mean, however, a citizen who robs people because his god tells him to is exempt from the law.

Freedom of expression

All Consigahrian citizens have the right to freedom of expression. Freedom of expression, in Consigahria, is defined as "the prerogative, the birthright, to express ideas and opinions freely through speech, writing, and other forms of communication but without deliberately causing harm to others' character and/or reputation by false or misleading statements." Legally speaking, freedom of expression may negate the penalty for breaking the following laws.

  • Assault; assault with a deadly weapon: If a citizen believes his life or freedom is in jeopardy, or if the same of one of his family members or close friends is compromised, he has the right to engage in violent combat in order to negate the threat, even to the point of using a firearm. If the cause of threat dies directly by means of this counterattack as deemed by a federal coroner via autopsy, or by forensic scientists by more than two autopsies, the citizen who counterattacked would be subject to the penalty for manslaughter.
  • Public indecency; public nudity; public obscenity: It is mandatory to be in a total state of undress while in public. All blouses, shirts, pants, undergarments, skirts, "skorts" (skirt-shorts), and all other clothing garments are illegal to wear in public, except all jackets and hoodies (in extreme cold), socks, shoes, sandals, hats, caps, skullcaps, beanies, piercings, tattoos classified as "clothing" such as permanent make-up, and diapers (if medically necessary). On private property, however, a citizen may dress how he pleases.
  • Murder; aggravated murder: A minor must be acquitted of his first murder; and a legally insane person, or somebody whose behavior suggests legal insanity, who kills only because of impulse, must be acquitted.
  • Smoking in a private residence: Any citizen may consume cannabis whenever medically necessary, wherever he is. Any adult citizen may consume tobacco outside on public property if he would like to, or within a home he owns.

Territorial laws

Under construction.

Laws specific to Koyoumaru Territory

Laws specific to Soho Territory

Laws specific to the Island Territories