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Important Legislations in Zephathah
Atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship.Pro-democracy protesters are shot on sight by state police.
Severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land.
The National Art Gallery's newest exhibit is the 500-year old Luna Lisa.
Soldiers are equipped with multi-million Shekel battlesuits.
Angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason.
Ritual mummification is making a comeback.
The military patrols the streets in search of possible secessionists.
Newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines.
The government is attempting to impose a new national language on the public.
The police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls.
Religious education is a new government priority.
The "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Zephataineine any less frightened.
It is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations.
The nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle.
Statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty.
Children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist.
Midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency.
Criminals are executed and their property seized.
Grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday.
Aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed.
The military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies.
It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma.
Groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol.
Penal labor is a de facto death sentence.
Politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes.
Graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail.
Murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour.
Blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest.
Conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue.
The nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'.
The strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Camelidae.
Teenage fathers are forced to join the army.
Citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors.
The endangered saltwater humpback Camelidae is only seen in captivity programs.
The nation's peacekeeping efforts usually comes with a healthy dose of pillaging.
Government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders.
Zephathah has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world.
Every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains.
Squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal.
The nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets.
Citizens who don't recite the Pledge of Zephathah at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list.
The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Zephathah after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax.
The government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid.
Zephathah's newly-famous raindances to summon storms instead attract tourists from all over Lands of Zephathah.
Science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters.
Homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities.
The bayonet is cutting edge technology.
Fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose.
The nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media.
The citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass.
Police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down.
The teaching of evolution has been banned.
Attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging.
The nation has nearly as many history museums as Camelidh aeine.
Ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences.
The government is cracking down on subversive groups.
Businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'.
ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠬᠣᠷᠣᠮ Qara Qorum has become the number one destination for urban exploration in Lands of Zephathah.
All writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves.
Male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'.
The colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia.
Government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read.
The government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance.
There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt.
Anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst.
Citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities.
Drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking.
It takes all playtime for children to locate their friends among two hundred identical heads.
Hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight.
A stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal.
Immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day.
Torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals.
Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program.
Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators.
Dining out often involves Camelidaes on the plate no matter what you order.
Survivors receive aid from only the most environmentally-friendly transport.
Jennifer Government is banned.
The Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea.
Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists.
Voodoo economists believe that feeding criminals to volcanoes will bring untold riches to Zephathah.
The religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives.
Corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation.
Citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee.
Government-run brothels can be found on every street corner.
Smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour.
Sections of the police receive paramilitary training.
All fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon.
Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts.
Leader's luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site.
Extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Zephathah is often a lifetime appointment.
Large sections of Zephathah have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there.
All guns must be registered.
Foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country.
Bungee jumpers rarely go splat.
Recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water.
The arms industry is strictly regulated.
Archaeological discoveries are often followed by mysterious hamster abductions.
Holy Grand Master and Khagan Ramesses has been known to make speeches in fishing waders.
Holy Grand Master and Khagan Ramesses's family is riven by conflict as they fight over the succession.
Astronomers are flocking to Zephathah to take advantage of its clear night skies.
Education is transforming people into first-rate snobs.
Genetic research has been halted.
There have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'.
The military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers.
It's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt.
Piracy is the nation's most popular pastime.
Up to 40% of voters can finally read the issues they're deciding on.
Sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes.
Notable individuals are granted land and titles.
Citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?".
Janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for.
Political speeches always take place at sunset to a background of patriotic power ballads.
Spousal homicide rates have tripled in recent months.
The nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books.
Fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers.
Truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills.
Zephathah's schoolchildren are manufactured into a segregated bunch of soldiers, religious zealots, and computer technicians.
All industry is owned and run by the government.
Abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics.
All marriages are arranged by the government.
Gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs.
Citizens have an obligation to remain silent and anything they say may be used against them.
Citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed.
Women who miscarry have their death-masks displayed in the Wax Museum's "Sociopaths and Serial Killers Exhibit".
The most popular stadium acts are one-off performances.
The practice of capital punishment proves divisive.
Soldiers must key in their passwords every time they want to reload their weapons.
People hearing voices that tell them to commit crimes are automatically assumed to be holy.
Women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners.
Tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult'.
Hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts.
Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works.
Moonshine has made a resurgence.
Bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters.
The words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence.
Anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away.
Commemoration of the Great Lands of Zephathah War costs almost as much as the war itself.
The nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street.
Criminals are thrown to the Camelidaes to repay their debt to society.
Anyone who doesn't attend Official Governmental Religious Services is fined.
Gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages.
Citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages.
Research into 'designer babies' is banned.
Political dissidents are cut off from essential services.
Waste is frequently shipped to other countries.
Shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned.
Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma.
Soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets.
All the playground's a stage for Zephatiaon schoolchildren.
Thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors.
There's no cure or sympathy for the common cold.
God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone.
The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks.
Everyone apparently sends Holy Grand Master and Khagan Ramesses hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child.
Aspiring authors begrudgingly help proofread issue submissions (Zephathah has found 2 easter eggs).
The government maintains that belief brings greater security than money or a roof.
Tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests.

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