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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 1848718" data-attributes="member: 1331">It's supposed to be heavy-handed; this particular nation IMC is run as a police state. It is governed by the militaristic followers of a lawful evil deity, who have complete control over the lives of normal citizens.Since the leaders is greatly outnumbered by normal citizens, it lives in fear of a popular uprising. Speech and gatherings are regulated, magic is heavily restricted, and all education is laced with propaganda. Violence toward another human is considered the worst of all sins, and weapons are tainted things to be viewed with fear. Only the hereditary upper class, made up of the LE cultists, is above these rules. The cult fears that if the general population ever started learning monk abilities, continued control of them would become impossible. (In the gameworld history, this happened to a tyrant several hundred years ago, and the rebellion was successful.) So the propaganda teaches that monks, in turning their very bodies into weapons, can become possessed by a spirit of chaos and destruction and everything that's wrong with the world. Most adventurers know this is pure nonsense, but good luck convincing the population of that.</blockquote>