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Power, Politics & War

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A global tour of censorship, blasphemy laws, and the many ways governments silence their citizens—from North Korea's total control to democracies that smile while they restrict.

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19 total
  1. 01Prologue
  2. 02Chapter One - No Fun Allowed
  3. 03Chapter Two - Rolling the Dice
  4. 04Chapter Three - Porn and PDA
  5. 05Chapter Four - Banned Love
  6. 06Chapter Five - Blasphemy Laws
  7. 07Chapter Six - Faith Enforcement
  8. 08Chapter Seven - Don’t Speak
  9. 09Chapter Eight - Quiet Police States
  10. 10Chapter Nine - Don’t Touch That
  11. 11Chapter Ten - Banned for Women
  12. 12Chapter Eleven - Drugs and Death
  13. 13Chapter Twelve - Crossing the Line
  14. 14Chapter Thirteen - When the Internet Vanishes
  15. 15Chapter Fourteen - Pop Culture Panic
  16. 16Chapter Fifteen - Banned Science
  17. 17Chapter Sixteen - You Can’t Wear That
  18. 18Chapter Seventeen - Everything Else (In Case You Were Wondering)
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  1. 19Chapter Eighteen - The Real Rule
Edition notes and short pages
Dedications, notices, acknowledgments, author notes, and short passages from this book.

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A Tour of Rules Around the World
by James Johnson

Dedication

For anyone who’s ever been told they’re not allowed.
You were never the problem.
The rules were.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


TO EVERYONE WHO crossed the line before me.
The whistleblowers, the protestors, the artists, and the punished.
Thank you for breaking things first.

To the thinkers and travelers whose stories informed this one, you gave me more to write about than I could ever fit in one book.

And to the readers who know there’s more going on, this one’s for your brain.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


JJ WRITES ABOUT the systems you live inside but rarely notice.
From laws to power to people to language itself, his books explore what really runs the world and who benefits from pretending it doesn’t.

He’s written over 300 titles covering history, control, politics, business, psychology, religion, and global patterns of power, often hiding deep truths inside accessible formats.

If the truth feels like fiction, you’re reading it right.

COPYRIGHT


© 2026 BY JAMES Johnson. All rights reserved.

This book is a work of nonfiction, built from publicly available records, media reports, government data, and cross-referenced global sources. Every effort has been made to ensure factual accuracy at the time of publication. Laws and enforcement patterns may change across regions and governments.

Some cultural interpretations, enforcement anecdotes, and commentary are included for educational purposes and may reflect individual cases or local variations.

This book is not intended as legal advice, political instruction, or cultural condemnation. It is a guided tour, not a verdict.

Names of countries, governments, and public figures appear under nominative fair use for commentary and analysis. Any resemblance to future laws not yet passed is purely dystopian coincidence.