Legality of corporal punishment by nation

Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person. It is most often practised on minors, especially in home and school settings. Common methods include cudgelling and flogging. It has also historically been used on adults, particularly on prisoners and enslaved people. Other common methods include flagellation and caning.

Official punishment for crime by inflicting pain or injury, including flogging, branding and even mutilation, was once widespread in the Atteran and Babkhan empires of antiquity. However, with the collapse of Shireroth, the last great empire built upon slavery, such punishments were increasingly viewed as inhumane and inefficient. By the late 17th century AN, corporal punishment had been eliminated from the legal systems of most developed countries.

Summary of legality by nation

Nation	Domestic	Educational	Judicial	Notes
Elwynn				A writ of cudgelling may be issued, under Article 8, Section 3, of the Constitution, by an appropriate agency for any act that may be reasonably accomplished through the application of cudgels provided that it is discernibly for the benefit of public order and discipline and is to the benefit of the greater portion of the citizens of the Republic. A valid writ must receive endorsement from the Court of the Prince and be executed within twelve days of issuance.
Kalgachia				Although nowadays superseded by primarily psychological forms of torment, following the bourgeoisification of the camps in 187 AL, the use of corporal punishment for trivial infractions of camp discipline was an integral part of the Urchagin, the process of hardening and conditioning which completes the indoctrination of each successive generation of Kalgachi children.
Unified Governorates				Traditional Benacian societies consider the sovereignty of the patriarch over his household to be as absolute as the one-time sovereignty of the Kaiser over his former empire and of the Gods over their creation. This extends to conferring upon a father the power of life and death over his dependants, particularly including servants and children, and the obligation to subject them all to ferocious and ceaseless discipline. Enthusiastic adherents of the educational policies of Ilessa Z. Aerit, the Black Legions consider corporal punishment to be an essential component of conditioning the young to understand and accept the hierarchies of obedience which will define their lives The use of corporal punishment is an established feature of the criminal justice system in the Unified Governorates which is influenced by the inquisitorial system of Shireroth and the cudgel-orientated policing model pioneered by Elwynn. Since 1673 all sentences for all but the most serious or political of crimes have been suspended in favour of enforced tours of duty with the Biological Remediation Service, combating the engineered-biota inflicted upon the natural environment by the enemies of humanity, where physical chastisement - usually flogging - is a prerequisite deterrent against attempts to flee. More generally, the ideology of Nationalist-Humanism holds that a society that lacks the capacity for cruelty will soon lose all vigour and swiftly become subject to external forces out of an aversion to conflict and fear of privation. As such corporal punishment is considered a public good, even if it perpetuates across generations psychological pathologies that might otherwise be considered antisocial, as it ensures that there will always remain to hand a sufficient cadre of those who understand the utility and necessity of violence.