The Villainess Returns with a System

25: Learning About The World

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In the First Royal Academy of Archester, there were a ton of subjects that were being taught to the elite students. Each student needed to at least register in 4 subjects and to take exams and graduate in them.

Some of these subjects were essential to at least pick one from which are Warfare & Strategies, Magic and Sorceries, Alchemy & Medicine, and Diplomatic Affairs.

Vivian was taking the Diplomacy major along with the History & Geography of Elgard, Economy & Trade, Modern Literature & Linguistics, and she also picked an easy additional fifth subject to compensate for any loss in grades that is called Astronomy & Navigation.

The Diplomacy subject was all about learning basic domestic management and a long introduction to the system of legislation in Elgard as well as Common and Civil Laws.

Vivian started studying this subject first since it was the most important thing to her. Any loss in grades in this subject will affect her overall score and make her look bad. Something that she tried so badly to avoid.

Lucky for her, she transmigrated with the memories of both the previous Vivian and Nadia. Vivian was very smart and diligent in her studies so going through the three books of the Diplomacy major alone took her one day each. At the end of the third day, she was well aware of the inner systems of Elgard and most of the popular laws and important governing acts and theories.

On top of that, the previous Vivian was the type of student who takes a lot of notes, meaning that she left a lot of writing directly in her textbook. While they looked like a mess, they were invaluable to memorize this whole thing with ease.

Still, the current Vivian has found some government acts and laws to be extremely bizarre and hilariously oppressive. Some of the bizarre laws are how illegal it is to shake your dusty rug mat before 8 am, how it is illegal to do any sort of diplomatic work while wearing a suit of armor, how it is prohibited to stay in a graveyard after a funeral, carrying planks of wood along a pavement without the obvious intent of loading them on or off a wagon to an enclosed work area, gambling in libraries, and obviously placing a postage stamp bearing the king's images head upside down, along with other weird things that were probably made into laws for singular cases or to vex someone in someway.

While the bizarre side of the law was somewhat funny, the oppressive side of the law was concerning to a large degree. This was not a National Elgardish Law but one that was legislated by the League of Nations and it is the Criminal Labor Act.

A Criminal Laborer is someone who has committed a crime in Albion or any of its respective nations' colonies across the four continents. Once the criminal is caught and tried for their crimes, they are to be enrolled in a physical labor camp rather than being cramped up in prison.

It is all fine and dandy since this was a popular punishment with all historical factors considered, and even in modern times as the "Penal Labour" punishment, however, the true face of evil was merely rearing its ugly head.

This Criminal Labor Act was enforced in the colonies of the Albionese nations, which were ruled by Martial Laws. Any minor offense in these parts be it from petty thievery to outright revolting was given one of two punishments, Life Imprisonment or Death. The latter was actually mercy compared to the former.

Life Imprisonment under the Criminal Labor Act is just a fancy redressing of plain old Slavery.

And if this was put in laws to make it look just, then one can't be more mistaken. First of all, the Laws prohibit any form of Human Criminal Labor. Humans were the natives in all three Continents but they were a minority in the Southern Sauran and the Eastern Longdi while being a majority in the Northern Albion.