r/nihonkoku_shoukan

Hey guys,

Some of you have probably seen bits of this already, but I wanted to share the final product.

I’ve been building out a project called The Magical Code of Regulations, which is exactly what it sounds like: a full legal code for magic, written in the style of real administrative law. It treats magic the way we treat things like tax and finance, with a ton if oversight, licensing, enforcement, and a whole lot of bureaucratic gobbledy-gook.

499 pages of it, in fact, lol. Was inspired from my time at the IRS, where I stared at tax code all day. Eventually, learned to embrace the pain, and wanted to exert that pain on others, whether they be worldbuilders, D&D players and DMs, writers, or just people that want a cool-ass coffee table book.

The focus from a worldbuilding standpoint is primarily about how a society would realistically try to control magic. So instead of just defining spells or systems, it gets into questions like who is authorized to cast, how high risk magic is classified, what happens when someone bends the rules, and how different areas like necromancy or prophecy get carved out and handled differently.

One thing I leaned on pretty heavily was the use historical annotations to include little notes about when and why something was enacted, which ends up doubling as worldbuilding. It’s kind of like how, in real life, you can trace legislation and case history to understand why a rule exists in the first place, except here those explanations sometimes involve magical disasters, political overreactions, or someone very specific causing a problem that now everyone else has to deal with (thanks, David).

It’s meant to read like a real system that exists inside a semi-functioning world (but with some humorous sections added in for some levity), and I thought you guys might find it interesting because I just haven't seen others go as in-depth when it comes to fantasy law, and I think you could find use for it when crafting your own worlds and stories!

Anyways, if you’re interested, the eBook is up for pre-order on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2SX1NJ

And it’s already available as an ePub on DriveThruFiction here:
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/566282/the-magical-code-of-regulations?affiliate_id=5121378

Print versions on Amazon are planned for May 12, maybe a bit sooner if I can manage.

More than anything though, I’m curious how other people approach this side of worldbuilding. A lot of magic systems focus on rules and limitations, but not as much on governance. If your world has magic, what actually keeps it in check? Is there a formal system, or is it more cultural, religious, or just chaos that no one’s figured out how to contain?

Would love to hear how you’ve handled it.

Our whole IRL military exists thanks to our ability to exploit weaknesses in the ambiguous "threat", be that predators, diseases or other people, so we create more and more sophisticated systems and, when it comes to human on human warfare, countermeasures to these systems, while unable to change natural laws - if something can't burn, then we need to find another way to combat that issue. You don't fight polar bears or tigers with fists, after all.

Fantasy settings filled with creatures and entities that can (and will) completely thwart natural laws if that means they can survive, while ordinary people who are capable of same feat might achieve bigger things than what we can do with our tools.

Because you still need to fabricate rockets, get them to the battlefield and shoot them, while the magically gifted can just summon explosion due to their ability to cast said magic. And outside of fireballs, mages can do a lot of other things OUR military can't, like teleportation, complete invisibility, regeneration of body parts and possibly even time stop.

There is no way we are winning arms race with magical.

Examples such as 30 years war, Napoleonic wars, ww2, and ww1

Throughout our history there have been examples of container ships being converted to makeshift carriers, so would it make sense for container ships being converted into wyvern carriers?

Think about it your summoned nation became allies with Qua-Toyne and other nations that operate wyverns they have a defensive deal with you so if you get attacked they come to help you and vice versa.

So to make good use of their wyverns you can just convert a few container ships into makeshift carriers to act as a second wave after your fighter aircraft wipe out the enemy or as cannon fodder to distract the enemy from your assets.

The votes will be tallied and put into effect after the end of the Battle of Cantrer Gwaelod, which also marks the end of the Second Story Arc. Feel free to speculate what faction is going to be involved in each battle. You can vote here, here, here, and here.

This is a world spiraling into Apocalypse. You can help by accelerating it!

This is mostly a meme about my Nations or examples, just show how much Otherworlders have no idea what they're absolutely doing, but I'm now solely focused making nations.

Some small lore shenanigans for my wargame timeline

B-10 Fulmine* has been a great source nuisance for the Parpaldian Aerial Corps since the start of the 4th Altaras-Parpaldian war last August.

The Fulmine with it 342km/h top speed allowed them to run away from practically all of Parpaldian fighter aircrafts as due to their nature being a land power, most of their aerial assets are designed for ground support first, fighting other aircrafts second which means their fighters are generally look more like really fast and agile bombers than true fighters. It also doesn't help them that the Wyvern Mafia, the ones behind the development of the Wyvern Overlord is in the control of the Aerial Corps pourcument in recent years push most of the funding to the Wyvern project instead of better interceptors despite many object to this as the Wyvern is reaching their limits in capabilities in term of being a cost efficient fighter and interceptor in comparison to Muish and Milishials style aircrafts.

For the Wyverns Lords and Overlords themselves, while they have better straight line speed to catch the B-10, their limited service ceiling of 4000m and generally poor climbing rate prevent them from being a truly effective countermeasures with the majority of B-10 Fulmine casualties having been attributed to ground based AA while interception have claimed relatively few in comparison

Note: Fulmine is lightning in Italian

You can ask about questions since It's just a concept fanfic I just pull out of my thoughts

This is very much seriously what lore accurate Antares imperium did back in forma

I’ve been developing a more grounded NHS-style scenario where Great Britain is transferred into the Nihonkoku Shoukan world.

But instead of focusing on “modern military stomps fantasy world,” the story focuses on what happens when an advanced maritime state loses the global system that keeps it alive.

Transferred:

- Great Britain itself (England, Scotland, Wales)

- territorial waters

- military forces present at the time

- foreign embassies and civilians inside Britain

Not transferred:

- Northern Ireland

- overseas territories

- British forces abroad

- NATO

- the rest of Earth

Britain wakes beneath unfamiliar stars in an unknown ocean.

At first they assume:

- cyberwarfare

- satellite attacks

- nuclear escalation

But reconnaissance eventually confirms something impossible:

Earth is gone.

The core idea is that modern Britain is not self-sufficient. It’s a highly optimized maritime-financial system embedded in global trade networks.

Britain still has:

- advanced military forces

- nuclear weapons

- functioning institutions

- scientific knowledge

But it loses:

- global trade

- financial systems

- supply-chain redundancy

- allied logistics

- imported food stability

So the main threat is not invasion.

It’s systemic degradation.

The story would focus on:

- convoy protection

- fuel anxiety

- food dependency

- industrial decline

- naval overstretch

- political fragmentation

- slow imperial emergence

Britain survives by creating external dependency networks with nearby states for:

- oil

- food

- trade routes

- logistics

But every dependency requires protection.

And protection slowly becomes influence.

Eventually Britain begins unintentionally rebuilding a maritime hegemonic system simply to survive.

Key themes:

- globalization collapse

- systems fragility

- maintenance of modernity

- imperialism through logistics

- democracy under prolonged strain

- whether isolation creates empire

The tone is closer to:

- geopolitical thriller

- Cold War crisis fiction

- maritime survival drama

rather than power fantasy.

I’m not an experienced fanfic writer, so right now this is more of a conceptual framework/worldbuilding project than a full story.

Would people actually be interested in reading something like this?

Edit / Clarification: Just to be clear, I’m not a writer and I’m not currently turning this into a full fanfic.

This is more of a conceptual framework / alternate NHS scenario I had in mind, and I’m just sharing it because I thought it might be interesting to people in this community.

If anyone is actually interested in the full structured version of the framework (expanded lore, factions, phase breakdowns, etc.), feel free to reach out, I can send it over.