[Muffet notes the unusual emphasis on the term 'lawful' and suspects there's a context she isn't getting there, but she's not sure if it would be rude to ask.]
I would think it would depend on the code of law in question, but you're not wrong. My people always tended towards a more... relaxed rulership than most human nations- getting an audience with His Majesty generally involved just walking up to him while he was working in the garden and saying hello- but that may have been more because a strict government just wasn't as necessary under the circumstances.
After all, we've always had a fairly low crime rate. Not to mention the advantage, such as it was, of living in a little underground kingdom with a population small enough that a monarch could feasibly get to know all of his people in person.
[Muffet is understating things a bit, for the sake of politeness- when it comes to anything more severe than petty theft or vandalism, the typical monster crime rate is 'none'. Human society had definitely taken some getting used to, back when they were first integrating the two species. She refuses to judge them for that- they're different peoples, and humans had different struggles to overcome than they did.]
A society isn't necessarily a government. Having everyone meet face-to-face has obvious logistical issues, but if we have anyone here with the technical skill to build a network-
[She stops midsentence, as she abruptly realizes one obvious reason why Roy might not be considering online communication as an option, beyond the lack of resources to build anything.]
Ah. It occurs to me that I may be making some assumptions about what technology is common in other worlds, the way it is at home. Does your world have a kind of device called a 'computer'?
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I would think it would depend on the code of law in question, but you're not wrong. My people always tended towards a more... relaxed rulership than most human nations- getting an audience with His Majesty generally involved just walking up to him while he was working in the garden and saying hello- but that may have been more because a strict government just wasn't as necessary under the circumstances.
After all, we've always had a fairly low crime rate. Not to mention the advantage, such as it was, of living in a little underground kingdom with a population small enough that a monarch could feasibly get to know all of his people in person.
[Muffet is understating things a bit, for the sake of politeness- when it comes to anything more severe than petty theft or vandalism, the typical monster crime rate is 'none'. Human society had definitely taken some getting used to, back when they were first integrating the two species. She refuses to judge them for that- they're different peoples, and humans had different struggles to overcome than they did.]
A society isn't necessarily a government. Having everyone meet face-to-face has obvious logistical issues, but if we have anyone here with the technical skill to build a network-
[She stops midsentence, as she abruptly realizes one obvious reason why Roy might not be considering online communication as an option, beyond the lack of resources to build anything.]
Ah. It occurs to me that I may be making some assumptions about what technology is common in other worlds, the way it is at home. Does your world have a kind of device called a 'computer'?