This document is a basic outline of station policy on judicial and economic matters. The complete regulations handbook is available upon request.
 

Violence

Violence will not be tolerated aboard the Simon Magus, except in Holosuite combat simulations, in which no real damage can be done. Violent offenders will be counselled, and if need be, offered chemical suppressants for their tendencies. If the offender continues after supprssants have been prescribed, s/he will be returned to earth to be dealt with by terrestrial authorities, and ship security logs will be provided to those authorities. Murderers will be immediately surrendered to terrestrial authorities, with proofs, security logs, and inquiry records.

Recreational drug use is left to individual discretion, unless it interferes with productivity or causes violent behavior. On-board medical facilities will provide rehabilitation and therapy to those who need it. Need is determined by the individual or, in the case of violent users, by a disciplinary comittee. Violence regulations will only be enforced if the behavior continues after the rehabilitation program is complete.

Disciplinary committees pass judgements in criminal and civil cases aboard the station. They are composed of from six to nine members, the first three being the security personnel handling the case, the next three being acquaintances of the perpetrator, and, in the case of directed crimes, the last three are acquaintances of the victim. The reason for choosing case analysts so close to the involved parties is that by knowing the litigants, they can better judge the truth of their claims. We believe that impersonality in legal proceedings perpetuates untruth and injustice because without foreknowledge of a person's character and history, it is easy to synthesize an image of a person's motives based entirely on conjecture. When one can see more of the picture it becomes simpler to make a judgement based on reality than one purely on the merits of the orator's rhetoric.

Economic policy

Basic needs will be provided to residents of the station as part of their basic living wage. These amenities include housing, medical care, utilities, and food. Essentially, expenses incurred via usage of consumables will be deducted from residents' wages. Please note that the usage of replication technology enables us to recycle organic matter with almost no loss, thus only trace minerals need be imported. Use of recreational facilities will be billed to residents' accounts. Debt is a non-issue on-board the station, since the basic needs package is deducted before residents recieve their wages, and recreational facilities will refuse an insufficient account; credit will not be extended.

Population Control

All inhabitants of the Simon Magus will be chemically sterilized upon arrival, to prevent too much expansion of the population in our limited space.The chemical sterilisation can be undone, and will be if two persons desiring a child can prove their ability and desire to care fr the child, and the medical community does not see the addition of a life as more than can reasonably be supported at the time. The station's population will be kept under 32,000 at all times, with no exceptions.

Education is divided into three ranges: Basic Education, which lasts from age 4-9, Apprenticeship, which lasts from 10-14, and Journeyman's Training, which lasts from 15 until the student is deemed qualified to work on his/her own. Basic Education is taught by family members of the company employees who have come aboard as part of a family unit, but are unemployed. Curricula are laid out in the classroom computing stations, so that the teachers will always have a guide to subjects which must be taught. The Basic Education day is divided into two parts; a classroom portion during the morning, in which concepts are taught, and an outdoor portion in the Spire gardens in the afternoon in which practical application of the morning's concepts are participated in. When the child reaches the age of ten, he or she must begin apprenticing with different professionals around the station, learning what it is they do. At the end of each year of apprenticing, the student presents a project drawn from what s/he learned at his/her favourite Master. At 15, the student is encouraged to choose a profession and to enter into an internship with one of the station's employees, that s/he may be trained further in one profitable occupation before reaching adulthood. When the student is deemed competent by the Master, s/he has a choice of joining the team aboard the station, returning to Earth, or learning another profession.