NationStates Jolt Archive

"Good evening, Mongolia. My name is Kuan Shinjua and we have an exciting line up of events occurring in our nation tonight on the program."

"First is breaking news from the palace of the Grand Khan. As many of you know crime has recently become rampant in parts of the country. A string of store robberies across the town of Khairkhan has left the police short handed and thus ignoring other problems the town is facing."

"Also, protesters seeking to put the late government back into power have been silenced by the Grand Khan's decisive actions against them. Here is a clip of the speech he made after a Kurultai with the many Khanates who preside over their ruling tribes and provinces."

The video shows Grand Khan Oyunimo stepping out of a door at the back of the room and stepping up to the podium at which sat at the front of the large conference room which was packed with representatives of various media stations. He wore a casual robe of royal elegance and looked grim.

He cleared his throat and spoke deeply, his accent extremely noticeable in his speech. "In response to the slight uprising amongst our nation's people's I have met with the Khanates of the regions across our grand nation and we have come to a decision that, following the discipline enforced during my ancestor's time, we will enforce the death penalty on any and or all rebel leaders and members immediately. It pains me greatly to put my own country men to death but if we are to achieve a strong knit society where foreigners can come to our nation and marvel at the complete lack of crime, we must show these criminals and rebels that their actions will not be tolerated."

He glanced about the room filled with reporters who quickly scrambled to write down what they had heard and concluded with: "I will be dispatching large portions of our military throughout Mongolia to aid local law enforcement in tracking down criminals and rebel resistance movements. This conference is adjourned." He stepped down off the podium and his guard followed suit back into the room he entered. Ignoring the shouting of questions by reporters with questions.

"Well it would seem that our noble and honorable leader, Grand Khan Oyunimo, has made his decision. Now onto the other stories for tonight..."

The Kiravian Empire does not object to the death penalty being used on rebel leaders. However, we would like to know how corrupt your justice sytem is.

The Kiravian Empire does not object to the death penalty being used on rebel leaders. However, we would like to know how corrupt your justice sytem is.
The Allied States of United Khanates bases its justice system roughly off of the Yassa, a written code of law developed by our nation's patron Genghis Khan. However, there are no surviving copies of these secret documents and we have had to rely on foreign sources to gain an possibly complete form of the ancient Yassa.

Here is what we have collected thus far. Note, much of the Yassa's laws may not be in act or have been modernized appropriately.

The Great Yassa
1. An adulterer is to be put to death without any regard as to whether he is married or not.

2. Whoever is guilty of sodomy is also to be put to death.

3. Whoever intentionally lies, or practices sorcery, or spies upon the behavior of others, or intervenes between the two parties in a quarrel to help the one against the other is also to be put to death.

4. Whoever urinates into water or ashes is also to be put to death.

5. Whoever takes goods (on credit) and becomes bankrupt, then again takes goods and again becomes bankrupt, then takes goods again and yet again becomes bankrupt is to be put to death after the third time.

6. Whoever gives food or clothing to a captive without the permission of his captor is to be put to death.

7. Whoever finds a runaway slave or captive and does not return him to the person to whom he belongs is to be put to death.

8. When an animal is to be eaten, its feet must be tied, its belly ripped open and its heart squeezed in the hand until the animal dies; then its meat may be eaten; but if anyone slaughter an animal after the Mohammedan fashion, he is to be himself slaughtered.

9. If in battle, during an attack or a retreat, anyone let fall his pack, or bow, or any luggage, the man behind him must alight and return the thing fallen to its owner; if he does not so alight and return the thing fallen, he is to be put to death.

10. No taxes or duties should be imposed upon fakirs, religious devotees, lawyers, physicians, scholars, people who devote themselves to prayer and asceticism, muezzins and those who wash the bodies of the dead.

11. All religions were to be respected and that no preference was to be shown to any of them. All this he commanded in order that it might be agreeable to Heaven.

12. When a wayfarer passes by people eating, he must alight and eat with them without asking for permission, and they must not forbid him this.

13. He forbade them to dip their hands into water and ordered them to use some vessel for the drawing of water.

14. He forbade them to say of anything that it was unclean, and insisted that all things were clean and made no distinction between the clean and unclean.

15. He forbade them to show preference for any sect, to pronounce words with emphasis, to use honorary titles; when speaking to the Khan or anyone else simply his name was to be used.

16. He ordered his successors to personally examine the troops and their armament before going to battle, to supply the troops with everything they needed for the campaign and to survey everything even to needle and thread, and if any of the soldiers lacked a necessary thing that soldier was to be punished.

17. He ordered women accompanying the troops to do the work and perform the duties of the men while the latter were absent fighting.

18. He ordered the warriors, on their return from the campaign (battle) to carry out certain duties in the service of the Khan.

19. He ordered them to present all their daughters to the Khan at the beginning of each year that he might choose some of them for himself and his children.

20. He put leaders, (princes/bogatyrs/generals/noyans) at the head of the troops and appointed commanders of thousands, hundreds, and tens.

21. He ordered that the oldest of the leaders, if he had committed some offense, was to give himself up to the messenger sent by the sovereign to punish him, even if he was the lowest of his servants; and prostrate himself before him until he had carried out the punishment prescribed by the sovereign, even if it be to put him to death.

22. He forbade military leaders to address themselves to anyone except the sovereign. Whoever addressed himself to anyone but the sovereign was to be put to death, and anyone changing his post without permission was also to be put to death.

23. He ordered that soldiers be punished for negligence.

24. In cases of murder (punishment for murder) one could ransom himself by paying fines.

25. The man in whose possession a stolen horse is found must return it to its owner and add nine horses of the same kind: if he is unable to pay this fine, his children must be taken instead of the horses, and if he have no children, he himself shall be slaughtered like a sheep.

26. The Yassa forbids lies, theft and adultery and prescribes love of one's neighbor as one's self; it orders men not to hurt each other and to forget offenses completely, to spare countries and cities which submit voluntarily, to free from taxes temples consecrated to God, and to respect old people and beggars. Whoever violates these commands is to be put to death.

27. If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.

28. Children born of a concubine are to be considered as legitimate, and receive their share of the heritage according to the disposition of it made by the father. The distribution of property is to be carried out on the basis of the senior son receiving more than the junior, the younger son inheriting the household of the father. The seniority of children depends upon the rank of their mother; one of the wives must always be the senior, this being determined chiefly by the time of her marriage.

29. After the death of his father, a son may dispose of the father's wives, all except his mother; he may marry them or give them in marriage to others.

30. All except the legal heirs are strictly forbidden to make use of any of the property of the deceased.

31. No subject of the empire may take a Mongol for servant or slave. Every man, except in rare cases, must join the army.

32. Men guilty of the theft of a horse or steer or a thing of equal value will be punished by death and their bodies cut into two parts. For lesser thefts the punishment shall be, according to the value of the thing stolen, a number of blows of a staff-seven, seventeen, twenty-seven, up to seven hundred. But this bodily punishment may be avoided by paying nine times the worth of the thing stolen.

33. Every man who does not go to war must work for the empire, without reward, for a certain time.

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