While I could go to relax or take things easier, as Elections were done, with a New Diety, comprised strictly of fresh Blood to Politics, trusting those with esperience or a Family heritage of Political expertise was out of the field, and not a hot necessity, the Chancellor, President and most other key positions to National and International relationships were under strict control by people with actual skill and commitment for the Fatherland, so having the Law makers be fresh into this new experience for them was a valid way to get this stagnant Machine called the Government to get moving towards real progress.
However, the remaining Piles of Laws and other stuff in need of a thorough review by yours truly are all things I myself am confused about. So with luck, that person will be arriving soon.
"Fraulein!"
"Mike..."
Not even bothering knocking on the Door or getting Anya to call me of his arrival, truly the carefree and annoying competent ally that my personal feelings want to call him an undesirable friend instead. No matter.
"You calling for me is rare. And if these piles of paper are anything... You confused on certain Laws, no?"
"Bingo."
Like Kaiserin, he reads me like an Open book, though his case is more that it IS one of his fortes. Not just that, but he probably can at least give me insight into what's behind those Laws... Because like People, Laws come to be what they are due to the times when they are created. Sitting to his comfort opposite to me, time for Business.
"My three guesses on the fields are, Marriage and Divorce, Criminal Standards, and Censorship."
"Very much correct on all."
"So? Which you want to begin with?"
"Start with Criminal Standards, I suspect there's a lot rooted to it among the other two."
"You would be right. Oldest of said Topic is the full standardization of Punishment no matter if the Criminal Dedendant or Civilian court loser is a Man or Woman. Judges were forced to apply the same standardized metric of Punishment no matter what, the metric being based entirely on what a Male would get hit with. This fucked several court standards because of one Anton Johansen and his Kangaroo court case where the Germanian Court demanded he pay up Twenty Trillion SilverMarks, which made Defamation cases a Nuclear option so bad courts ignored any and every single one until a revision of his court case cleared his name and Punishment off the standards."
"Twenty TRILLION? The fuck he did? Post mean things in social media?"
"He spoke hard truths. During the 2020s mess that was Europa and the US."
I facepalm.
"Ignoring any laws meant to set more saner standards to that first major change, the second Major one was putting some leashes on the Judges so they couldn't keep railroading a case they took, again, it was a remedy to Anton's Case, and also needed because of a Scandal about rampant Political based persecution by Judges to parties found out to be AfD sympathizers. Several Judges were canned and thrown to a train straight to the Russy lands, else they end in the hands of rabid Germanians itching to put them through Vigilante Justice."
Not the best Golden Parachute, but if those assholes survived, they should be glad their Government covered for them that much at least.
"Third major Reform was shortly after the first, but kept being delayed or sabotaged until the Chancellor crashed through the roof of the Diety room and put an end to it, with an Ultimatum, and an Ultracompact MIRV warhead armed and ready to vaporize the Political caste off Germania. It was a thorough wiping of Censorship laws, establishing standards for Social Medias to block them from censoring with impunity, and fully imunizing Fictional works from having to deal with laws not remotely aimed at handling them. Took the Chancellor exposing over eight percent of the Legislative and Judiciary staffing of having possession of real people's CP material to get the Legalese fuckery to stop after aaid reforms though."
"You telling me she had to PURGE the government... How many times it had to happen?"
"Depends from what period we starting with."
"Since the first crysis after I died."
"Twenty Times, if you count the five Riots that managed to purge Government elements. Twelve if you consider only movements that involved your sweetheart in the Chancellor and President positions."
Twenty ... Only a fucking Century and the Government got through TWENTY purges? How the fuck did Germania, OZEV, survive that much Unrest?"
"Germania and OZEV were never attacked because the Military said Fuck off to the Government whenever unrest happened and stated they had higher priorities to deal with, namely keeping foreign hostiles from trying anything due to said unrests."
For once I can say the Military was a well behaved Powerhouse. My times with them was either one fire to be put out after another, or dealing with excessive Internal Politics messing with the Army readiness.
"Next... How about Marriage and Divorce?"
"Fine."
"First major was post 2026, No fault Divorces were scrapped in its entirety, so now both parties had to agree on concessions and terms to a divorce, first of many attempts by the Germanian Government to get Birth rates up."
"Color me surprised... Alright, how bad was it for the Husband of the equation before it."
"The Wife would take the house, Kids, Car, even the Dog, the poor canine companion would look to the husband pleading for mercy even."
"And how bad did the Men disengaging from relationships got?"
"... Men to this day rather marry a Waifu of their Favorite Gacha than risk a Woman."
"Why am I not surprised things went this way?"
"Personal experience?"
"Haha... You think my relationship with Visha was her be the annoying naggin Wife that drained all the fun I could have in Life?"
"Well... Why there's records of you doing quite the number of stuff that for sure earned time sleeping on the Sofa?"
"Like what?"
"Cheng Shusheng."
Wunderbar... In my defense it WAS self-Defense when those wacko Enhanced Mages that hated their Government and the world itself tried some suicide Terrorist attack in Formosa when I was visitting. Though I got a little too happy that some decent Lethal fight had come my way... And I decided to go Melee against a Bunch of Mages KNOWN for exceptional Martial arts... I won, so I was the better one, right?
"Fine, move on, before I decide to have you be the Cargo on the Germanian Restarted Rocketry program for our own Space Port initiative."
"Sure, Sure. Second big change to Marriage and Divorce in Germania was a full restructuring of the Family Courts, now adding several Layers of recourses and restraints to both put it back in Order as well as get it to ACT like a PROPER Court system. Any Result that gets contested and is proven going against the Hard evidence is scrapped and the Judge penalized severely. And if there's foul play from the involved Parties, be one or both sides, there's penalties as well."
Good... Honestly there's been so many Lives where I ended hearing such Bullshit cases that it further killed my waning Libido slash Interest in a physical relationship. Though it seems almost like a constant of Humanity that Misandry just goes causing all the damage it does through time until it gets to a breaking point. Probably why Germania has cut down Voting to only those who are likely to actually be invested in the Nation, Military Vets, Peacetime Military retirees who spent over 30 years in service, Citizens who invested in Land or major Government Bonds, or have Significant Business Capital and Assets fixed here (aka Buildings, Employees and Large size Hardware). Marriage nowadays is low between Men and Women, as the tremd went towards A-Dolls, Civillian purpose Robots that either work in fields lacking human resources, or that few show desire to work in.
"The last important change itself was not in Marriage itself, but in Rights and Duties, being crude, getting the Constitution and Laws to make some things more well split. Like Voting, things like Rights to Own land and other major things that require a Government issued certification of it, like Business ownership, were restricted severely. The cut meant women couldn't exactly rely on being 304s, Gold Diggers or a Parasite like a member of the so called "Feminist" movement, nowadays people call it Feminazism. Either they became a productive worker that paid taxes... Or went to be a Housewife... Guess how the latter option went."
"Oh geez... What could have possibly happened? Perhaps their blatant insufferable behavior, decades of nonstop biased benefitting of one Gender and the overall chain of terrible times in both Economic and Social aspects for men led to them deciding women aren't worth the risks nor investments they demand to just start the relationship?"
What a Joke... Hilarious that once things started settling down between me and Visha way back then... I had to play the Husband role who set firm lines in the relationship. My taste for extreme flying, and my piss poor luck of oftenly having International trips when things were a little heated where i went to going fiery made her develop such a terrible overbearing protectiveness that It was necessary... Ironic... Me with a Biologically Female Body but one third the soul of a Male, put the marriage in better shape to the bitter end than most in the over 150 years between my time alive here and this secod coming.
"Yes. Many minor reforms went here and there through time, most typically were reactionary strikes to the brief times women went a little too rampant in their protests about Men prioritizing their Hobbies and "Waifus" over the real deal, the hottest spike of this back and forth went when an Artificial Womb for A-Dolls was put in the market at cost effective pricing."
"You telling me Women got effectively replaced as Women in full? Guess in a sense they now got their wish to be equal to men in life as a whole then..."
Something tells me this is Karma being the Bitch people call it. Women overdid abusing Men, all while Government, Military and Workplaces did it as well, all of them got fucked hard with a Conga line of one disaster after another. And Mike's telling me Women lost everything they could try to use and leverage some gains of their own? That must Hurt...
"People see you more as a Goddess from their church than a Woman... So I guess this doesn't affect you?"
"Mike, I have fucking lived enough Reincarnations of such morose Misery that I don't even care much about my Body's gender or sexual matters. Honestly, I feel like I am having some sick fun learning about all this retribution in spades the world has been delivering humanity as a whole."
He pulls a Hip flasl from who knows where, takes a sip of it, and takes a breather.
"I see...censorship it is then."
"Wunderbar... I am just expectant at what kind of Bullshit led to those reforms."
"The first one? Nothing truly insane, just Electoral interference, and blatant Voting Fraud, what with a later investigation revealing some Heidlers that got blowm to bits by Artillery during the First Great War decided to vote a certain way. The fact the immediate Voting results broadcasted resulted in a massive commotion and Social Media going up into a heated brawl of the Majority who voted right leaning AfD disputing the Leftist parties victory, and the Social medias themselves censoring and cutting those voices. The fact MaskBook and Chirp HQ in OZEV territory was demolished by the Angered Mobs that constituted 70% of the Bloc's Active population, and the Bundestag along other government buildings also met a similar fiery end, the reform was the reformed governments appeasement to those Mobs."
"Is that Why this building smells so new to me? And who would have guessed that making peaceful protesting impossible would cause a Violent Riot of such scales? Not those Commie assholes I guess."
"Different pain, same bullshit, nothing much changed government wise back then, but that was the first major damage to the foundation of the OZEV as a power bloc. The reform itself was just gateways and safeguards that forbade Social Medias and News Organizations from silencing dissenting Voices if there's no Violation of the Law."
One thing those bastards that are in favor of a Leftist government, be it Facistic or Communist, are good at, is slithering their way from sinking ships and parasitizing healthy ones.
"Second one was post Third Great War, when people came back of that mess truly fed up, the people stopped their near Civil War mess internally to deal with their most hated enemy, Russy assholes, only Albish pricks to rival said hatred. Anyways, Third GW ends, all former OZEV governments are taken out by a Coup of the citizens with Military Aid. This reform was an add-on to the 1980s Constitutiou yours truly created to get out of the Government, adding a shit ton of Restrictions to Government and Corporations towards stiffling citizen speech."
The Coup of 2060, when the people, decide that they want a new Degurechaff in power with no end anymore, so they just purge the whole Government, and let Adelaide Degurechaff set things down in a way that offers welcome change to such a rusted and corrupt system. Of course... It ended only working temporarily, else why would I be put back here?
"So the reform was to make impossible to leave no Political spectrum variety? Though the AfD fiasco was enough of such problems."
"You know how Humans are."
Do I? Maybe. Perhaps... Most Likely.
"Fine, go on."
"Last big change was Adelaide Fourth Generation, just a decade or so before your return, deciding that Censorship was still rampant by means of attacking Art, how poor in creativity, don't you agree?"
"Next you telling me about Book Burnings, Theft of priceless art pieces and someone of my Church creating a So called Holy Grenade of Triano."
"Oh man! I wanted to tell you about the time the Government went and Burned the Book of Armaments Tanyaism created! And how the "Divine" Punishment was a Train with Late Chancellor Ernst Burzovsk and stolen pieces from the Tanyaism Church of Arene got erased from existence when one Erlicht Weiss hit it with the Silver Wings Grenade!"
"This is a Joke, right?"
His smile was the same when he wasn't pulling some silly moment. And stayed that way.
"Right..."
Kaiserin intervenes by putting a fresh Cup of Coffee in front of me. May Mike Bless this wunderkind of an Adjutant, because had she not done this, I would be jumping at Mike to start beating his ass.
"Anyways... Back to the Point, Mentlegen. Adelaide's reforms were crude, but effective. Germania by law no longer could allow any deletion of Artistic Content that is entirely fictional, and any foreign or National party slash Company wanting to force such would have to deal with it through the Proper channels of the Government if they still insisted. Given how the Judges got scared shitless by some visits of Anya, who threatened to expose their "Cultured" folders of research... Adelaide was not having disobedience of these reforms as an answer."
"Something tellse she was pissed."
I met the Fourth and Fifth generation Adelaides, honestly, they don't even look or behave different from what the one I raised like my child did in the time I was present for her. So something happened, I am almost too sure of it.
"You know your girls. An Artist doing one of the Best works of Germania-Chan since the ones you funded and gave your approval, got nuked from all platforms, and later, news came the poor artist whose sole crime was being enthusiastic about Germania-Chan, ended their life after some suspicious mass focused harassment and deplatforming campaign. When Anya's investigation revealed Politicians and Taxpayer money was involved, she had enough of playing Nice."
"For a moment I though someone made K-Brot of my face or Germania-Chan."
"Adelaide Third Generation once ordered a Restaurant and the owners entire family arrested for one similar case."
"What can I say? Those ARE my lovely Daughters, yes."
Anyone questioning why I have such a bright smile after hearing of such cases, shut up and fuck off. I love Adelaide and her attachment to me, that's enough for me to be happy.