A political, economic, and social crisis had been building to the point of an impending collapse in Voldovia, a small country in Central Europe that was largely ignored by the rest of the world. The two parties that had dominated the country for it's entire existence: the center-left People's Welfare Party and center-right Moderate Reform Party, both seemed unable or unwilling to address the rampant inflation and unemployment, and protestors that had been gathering outside of the capital for months were well aware of it. Third parties suddenly were looked at seriously, but there were too many of them, and the citizens were unable to pick or create one central opposition party to represent their needs.
Both parties desperately tried to distract the people by focusing instead on a meaningless social argument: the banning of corporal punishment in public schools. The conservative party blamed this for the increase in petty crime and drug use, and the liberals called this ridiculous.
The conservative party wrote up a law reinstating corporal punishment. But over the next 10 days or so, as parliament members became afraid of being actually harmed by the rioters, they began adding outlandish things to the bill as a desperate attempt to distract from the economic issues. First someone said it applies to adults in college. Then all adults. Then someone said they could be forced to remove their clothes. A parliament even mentioned anal sex, the most ridiculous thing she could imagine. And so on and on.
The final law implied the following: if any adult man wished to punish an adult woman, the woman would be legally obligated to submit. She may be obligated to remove her clothes, or change into different clothes. She could also be punished by the insertions of objects or body parts into her anus. Also, a man who develops a record of unreasonable cruelty and sadism may be legally charged.
It all seemed like a massive joke. And the world was indeed laughing. If there was a sign of a truly dysfunctional government, this was it.
Then the entire country watched as the law actually passed. The chaos froze for a moment as the country realized what had just happened.
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Sanya sits on the couch, on her phone, as she had been doing essentially all day. Wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, her blonde hair messy and unkempt, she didn't look like a particularly put together person. It had been months since she graduated from college and moved back in with her parents, and didn't seem to be making an effort to move out and move forward in life. In fact, she had gotten into a shouting match with her parents about it this morning, but that was not on her mind.
At this exact moment, parliament was voting on the bill that made the country an international laughing stock. But Sanya was completely unaware that life was about to change radically. It seemed absolutely impossible that the bill would pass; nobody really even entertained the idea.
What was on her mind was a text she had gotten from a platonic male friend earlier in the day. They were close enough that it wasn't weird when he told her: "if this law passes somehow I'm spanking my boss tomorrow. Half cause she's a bitch and half cause I want to see her take her clothes off".
Sanya had never thought about spanking in a sexual manner before. She liked a slap on her ass during sex, but never considered the image of an adult women over the knee of an adult man. And all day she had been pondering how hot the idea of her friend spanking his boss was.
It so happens that that exact friend sends her a text telling her to open up any news website right now. Confused, she opens her phone and typed "news" into Google. Every single article says basically the same thing: the Voldovian spanking law passed.