Curious Local Customs

[David Johnston2]

1. The local superstition is that pictorial representations of the dead bind them to the living world. For that reason all such images are destroyed unless the subject is considered by the state or next of kin to be worthy of a kind of damnation. Therefore their cities are adorned with statuary of their most despised traitors and criminals.

2. Seeing someone else eat is reserved for close family members. Restaurants therefore enclose their tables in privacy curtains.

3. The locals don't wear clothes

4. Men and women are expected to live separately meeting only in designated areas for commerce except during the fertility festival.

5. A failure to be polite when speaking to others is a criminal offense.

6. Displays of anger and sadness are regarded as symptomatic of mental illness requiring medical intervention.

7. All body hair is depilated, with eyebrows cosmetically painted on.