The Artisan Guild
For these laws to function, Artisan's Guilds would need to be formed across the Dominion to collect competencies across several specialized fields of skilled work in agriculture, medicine, education, labour and so forth. They would internally moderate themselves and take responsibility for raising competency of its members and fostering it. The Artisan's Guilds across the Dominion would altogether be policed and guided by a central authority, yet to be named or defined.
AG001: All non-citizens are required, when of legal age, to be registered with an Artisans Guild, to guide their professional education and training in a chosen field. The choice of Artisans Guild is left to the resident.
AG002: All Artisans Guilds across the Dominion are required to train and educate its members and guide them towards finding active positions in their chosen fields.
AG003: The following Artisan Guilds will be established immediately by order of the Dark Lord:
AG005: Charters to form additional guilds may be purchased from the Dominion administration.
AG006: Each guild may nominate one person to join the Dominions administration and serve as an advisor relating to guild matters..
Industrial Efficiency
IE001: All non-citizens are required, when coming of legal age, to take aptitude tests to determine level of intelligence, skill, versatility and talent. All results are a matter of public record to be kept by local census departments. Aptitude tests are to be retaken in three years. Failure to commit to the tests is grounds for imprisonment, penal indentured servitude or military conscription.
IE002: All businesses and industries within the Dominion are required to provide annual training programs and/or apprenticeships to their employees.
IE003: All adult non-citizens are required to be in training, education or employment, unless otherwise preoccupied with familial duties. Failure to comply is grounds for penalty including imprisonment, penal indentured servitude or military conscription.
IE004: Enterprises from outside the Dominion are offered tax reductions if they choose to establish themselves on any suitable planet. To be eligible for this benefit, the business must employ a minimum of 200 Dominion residents, along with any necessary amount of slaves. Slaves imported to the Dominion must be registered in accordance with the Zula Dominion Slave Trade Law.
IE005: All governed planets within the Dominion are to contribute towards the Dominions autarky in accordance with designated quotas. Governors who fail to meet quotas will be subjected to penalties.
IE007: Businesses are required to allocate a portion of their annual profits toward research and development to improve efficiency, technology, and production methods. Grants are available to enterprises that demonstrate exceptional innovation benefiting the Dominion.
IE008: All appropriate industries are required to maintain a portion of their production capacity in reserve for rapid conversion to military use during times of war or crisis.
Population Growth
PG001: Dominion residents that produce children are eligible for tax breaks, compounding up to the third child for full benefits.
PG003: Dominion residents, men and women, are required to undergo regular medical checks for the population census and to root out damaging congenital illness or defects that would weaken the Dominion. Parents that ignore these requirements and produce children that suffer such conditions unchecked are liable to be penalized under the law, and exempt from any tax breaks, privileges or citizenship bids.
PG004: Dominion residents can volunteer themselves to be guardians of future generations and take responsibility for raising and rearing children born of other families that, for professional reasons, cannot be involved. Such residents, if recognized as competent by the local authority, are offered privilege and pay like active service citizens while they serve in this role.
PG005: Dominion residents united by sanctioned marriage are legally obligated to produce offspring and may be liable to penalty under Dominion law if they fail to meet this requirement within five years of marriage.
PG006: Holders of slaves with desirable traits and good health, as determined by evaluations during the mandatory registration process, are given financial privilege and tax exemptions if their slaves produce offspring at a rate of a 5% gross increase of their personal slave allotment per year.
PG007: Dominion residents of sufficient status may be granted the right to take a second husband or wife, under Dominion protection and law, to ensure the security of their bloodlines and strengthen the Dominion.
PG008: Children born outside of wedlock are not considered heirs to their parents wealth or titles and are instead wards of the Dominion. They may be raised by their natural parents until such time as they are adults when they will be enrolled in Imperial service.
PG009: Dominion residents with superior genetic traits, as identified through mandatory health screenings, are encouraged to participate in the Dominion’s Genetic Optimisation Programme. Participants receive financial rewards for producing offspring with partners selected by the Dominion to enhance population strength.
For these laws to function, Artisan's Guilds would need to be formed across the Dominion to collect competencies across several specialized fields of skilled work in agriculture, medicine, education, labour and so forth. They would internally moderate themselves and take responsibility for raising competency of its members and fostering it. The Artisan's Guilds across the Dominion would altogether be policed and guided by a central authority, yet to be named or defined.
AG001: All non-citizens are required, when of legal age, to be registered with an Artisans Guild, to guide their professional education and training in a chosen field. The choice of Artisans Guild is left to the resident.
AG002: All Artisans Guilds across the Dominion are required to train and educate its members and guide them towards finding active positions in their chosen fields.
AG003: The following Artisan Guilds will be established immediately by order of the Dark Lord:
- The Mining Guild.
- The Manufacturing Guild.
- The Spacefaring Guild.
- The Agricultural Guild.
- The Slaving Guild.
- The Commerce Guild.
AG005: Charters to form additional guilds may be purchased from the Dominion administration.
AG006: Each guild may nominate one person to join the Dominions administration and serve as an advisor relating to guild matters..
Industrial Efficiency
IE001: All non-citizens are required, when coming of legal age, to take aptitude tests to determine level of intelligence, skill, versatility and talent. All results are a matter of public record to be kept by local census departments. Aptitude tests are to be retaken in three years. Failure to commit to the tests is grounds for imprisonment, penal indentured servitude or military conscription.
IE002: All businesses and industries within the Dominion are required to provide annual training programs and/or apprenticeships to their employees.
IE003: All adult non-citizens are required to be in training, education or employment, unless otherwise preoccupied with familial duties. Failure to comply is grounds for penalty including imprisonment, penal indentured servitude or military conscription.
IE004: Enterprises from outside the Dominion are offered tax reductions if they choose to establish themselves on any suitable planet. To be eligible for this benefit, the business must employ a minimum of 200 Dominion residents, along with any necessary amount of slaves. Slaves imported to the Dominion must be registered in accordance with the Zula Dominion Slave Trade Law.
IE005: All governed planets within the Dominion are to contribute towards the Dominions autarky in accordance with designated quotas. Governors who fail to meet quotas will be subjected to penalties.
IE007: Businesses are required to allocate a portion of their annual profits toward research and development to improve efficiency, technology, and production methods. Grants are available to enterprises that demonstrate exceptional innovation benefiting the Dominion.
IE008: All appropriate industries are required to maintain a portion of their production capacity in reserve for rapid conversion to military use during times of war or crisis.
Population Growth
PG001: Dominion residents that produce children are eligible for tax breaks, compounding up to the third child for full benefits.
PG003: Dominion residents, men and women, are required to undergo regular medical checks for the population census and to root out damaging congenital illness or defects that would weaken the Dominion. Parents that ignore these requirements and produce children that suffer such conditions unchecked are liable to be penalized under the law, and exempt from any tax breaks, privileges or citizenship bids.
PG003a: Dominion residents that are found to have undesirable congenital illnesses or traits that pose a threat to population growth within the Dominion are required by law to be rendered medically infertile. Failure to comply makes one liable to be penalized under the law, including but not limited to imprisonment, penal indentured servitude or cancellation.
PG004: Dominion residents can volunteer themselves to be guardians of future generations and take responsibility for raising and rearing children born of other families that, for professional reasons, cannot be involved. Such residents, if recognized as competent by the local authority, are offered privilege and pay like active service citizens while they serve in this role.
PG005: Dominion residents united by sanctioned marriage are legally obligated to produce offspring and may be liable to penalty under Dominion law if they fail to meet this requirement within five years of marriage.
PG006: Holders of slaves with desirable traits and good health, as determined by evaluations during the mandatory registration process, are given financial privilege and tax exemptions if their slaves produce offspring at a rate of a 5% gross increase of their personal slave allotment per year.
PG007: Dominion residents of sufficient status may be granted the right to take a second husband or wife, under Dominion protection and law, to ensure the security of their bloodlines and strengthen the Dominion.
PG007a: Such sanctioned marriages will be known as Dominion Marriages and the partners as Dominion Wives or Dominion Husbands respectively.
PG007b: These partners are considered secondary to the primary partner and may not inherit their partners wealth or titles upon death. A fixed sum should therefore be agreed upon prior to marriage.
PG007c: Children born of these marriages may be recognised as formal heirs at the cost of fifty thousand credits paid to the Dominion Administration.
PG008: Children born outside of wedlock are not considered heirs to their parents wealth or titles and are instead wards of the Dominion. They may be raised by their natural parents until such time as they are adults when they will be enrolled in Imperial service.
PG008a: Children born outside of wedlock may be recognised as formal heirs at the cost of one hundred thousand credits paid to the Dominion Administration.
PG008b: This law is also applicable to the children of slaves where one parent is not a slave.
PG009: Dominion residents with superior genetic traits, as identified through mandatory health screenings, are encouraged to participate in the Dominion’s Genetic Optimisation Programme. Participants receive financial rewards for producing offspring with partners selected by the Dominion to enhance population strength.