The legal system on Micky Island is a fairly simple one. Our type of government is a laissez faire type of government, in almost all aspects of the government. The officials that are paid through the taxes imposed on the people are only in charge of one thing. These government officials are paid to make sure that the issues the people want to vote on are brought up on the ballot to be voted on in the quarterly referendums. The officials take polls among the population, along with looking at complaints that come from the common people. With this information, they create anywhere from 1-20 issues to vote on in the next “election.”
The people carry all of the issues out. For example, if it was voted that a road needed to be built, the funding for the road could come two ways. In one system, the flat tax (detailed later under “Economic System”) would be raised and the government would then form a paid committee to oversee the construction of the road. In the second system for making the new road, one company would be commissioned to build the road. The company would then “own” the road, and would be able to charge a toll or even close the road. The land would have to be bought by this company, and they would suffer all the expenses. If the method that the company chose to pay for the road was negative, say a high tax, the flat tax could be raised in the next election and the road could be bought by the government for public use.
Obviously companies could take great advantage of the system that is in place. The way that decisions are made could lead a road builder to have a monopoly and soon become rich. With a flat tax, that person would have the most money of everybody. This complication has to be avoided by the people. The people have all of the power, and can use the quarterly referendums to benefit their situation.
Our court system is based on the Supreme Court that the United States has today. Instead of several small courts, we just have one large court. This court sees all of the cases the arise on the island. Because of our small population, not many cases would make it to court. Many of the disputes among people are recommended to be solved amongst themselves. This is the reason why: the prosecutor has to pay the court system to even see his case. The prosecutor pays a fee, relative to the time that was taken up by the court, after the case is settled. If the prosecutor is found to be correct in the court case, the charges to the defendant are raised to account for the fee. The defendant pays all of the damages from the case, along with a small extra charge equal to three quarters of the fee that the prosecutor has to pay.
The stands on most policies are left to be interpreted by either the court, or put into law by the quarterly elections. Some policies, however, are interpreted from the Bill of Rights without any room for argument (except, of course, the voting and passing of a bill to overture these interpretations).
These civil rights are as follows:
- Abortion: Abortion is considered murder in all cases. The punishment for abortion, however, should be decided on a case by case basis. If a woman was raped, for example, her only punishment might be the fee for having her case come to court.
- Assisted Suicide: Assisted suicide is illegal. Obviously assisted suicide will happen among friends or other such relationships, but any person caught assisting or having assisted suicide will be tried for murder.
- Capital Punishment- The death penalty is legal. The circumstances for the death penalty are as follows:
1) Murder- The death penalty for murder must be decided on a case by case basis
2) Rape- Again, decided on a case by case basis
3) Violence- In extreme cases, such as an attempted bombing, the death penalty can be decided on a case by case basis
- Legalization of Drugs: The people decide what drugs are legal. The government officials can choose to put banning drugs up on the ballot, but the decision is up to the people for them to decide if they want to ban drugs.
- Public Smoking- Smoking in certain areas is not allowed on our island. Near schools, hospitals, doctors offices, churches, nursing homes, and government buildings, smoking is not allowed. Other places are up to the decision of the people whether to ban smoking or not.
All of our laws are enforced by our police force, paid for by the flat tax.
Our legal system can be further explained by this chart:
