China - disappeared for comparing xi jing ping the dictator to Winnie the Pooh, or mention Hong Kong or Taiwan in a postiive light on wechat
Singapore - 2 years in jail for selling gum, death penalty for Having drugs
Vietnam - 34 years for drug trafficking
Also, a friend's weed dealer was busted about a while ago. He got 8 years, not 34 years, from what I heard.
I'm not trying to paint a rosy picture here. Theres huge corruption in the government and a lot of pollution and traffic problems. But it's not the dystopia that it's often portrayed as in the west. On the contrary, it's a beautiful and easy country in which to live, as long as you're above the poverty line. But food and necessities are amazingly cheap here and only about 10% are below the national poverty line here (in the US it's around 12%).
What do they have against gum?
Gum tends to end up everywhere and is super hard to relive once dried.
But there are other high penalities for dirting the streets/parks/houses related offenses.
But then it's a city where you could (theoretically) walk barefoot in the streets without worrying about dirt it similar. Through it's probably not legal either and you do have to worry about burning you feed on the hot asphalt ;=}
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