In Commonwealth City, personal autonomy is a civic value. Pleasure, escape, intimacy, and experimentation are not moral crimes. They are personal choices.
What the City regulates is harm, not desire.
Sex work and drug use are legal, visible, and normalized—until they become coercive, exploitative, or systemically damaging.
Consent, agency, and safety define legality.
Neither sex work nor drug use is criminal by default.
They become illegal only when they:
Remove meaningful consent
Cause excessive or unavoidable harm
Create coercive dependency
Externalize harm onto others or the City
Sex work is legal, regulated, and protected under labor and safety law.
Sex workers may operate:
Independently
Through cooperatives
Via licensed agencies or platforms
They are entitled to:
Healthcare access
Safety protections
Legal representation
Contract enforcement
Right to refuse service without penalty
Sex work is treated as work, not morality.
Sex work becomes illegal when it involves:
Coercion, threats, or force
Financial or housing leverage
Trafficking or confinement
Psychological manipulation removing agency
Non-consensual modification or intoxication
Exploitative contracts that cannot be exited
The City is especially aggressive about invisible coercion.
Consent must be ongoing, informed, and revocable.
Voluntary registration options exist (not mandatory)
Anonymous reporting channels are widely used
CCPD and Public Oversight treat coercion as a high-priority offense
Cooperatives are legally favored over private controllers
Sex workers are not punished for reporting abuse—even if other laws were technically violated.
Most recreational drugs are legal to:
Possess
Use
Produce
Distribute
Drugs are regulated as public health substances, not contraband.
Education, testing, and harm-reduction services are universal and free.
A substance may be restricted or banned only if it:
Causes unavoidable, excessive physical or neurological harm
Removes the user’s capacity to consent long-term
Creates uncontrollable addiction by design
Is engineered primarily as a coercive or incapacitating agent
Produces systemic harm at scale
Illegality targets the substance, not the user.
Drug use is not criminal.
Harmful behavior while under the influence is treated the same as any other harm. Intoxication is not an excuse—but it is considered in response and recovery.
Addiction is treated as a health issue, not a moral failure.
Both systems are monitored for:
Coercion patterns
Unsafe parameters
Exploitative economics
Long-term harm trends
Monitoring is:
Statistical
Anonymous by default
Escalatory only when patterns emerge
Individual behavior is rarely targeted.
Patterns trigger action.
Sex work and drug use are normal background elements
NPCs engage openly without stigma
Harm, coercion, or exploitation escalate quickly
Players are not punished for participation
The City intervenes only when agency is removed
Quiet, consensual lives are left alone.
Commonwealth City does not protect people from their choices.
It protects them from having those choices taken away.
Pleasure is allowed.
Escape is allowed.
Risk is allowed.
Exploitation is not.
That line is watched carefully.
And when it is crossed,
the City responds—not with shame, but with force.