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In the Berlin Flux State, there was no rule beyond that set down by the guys with the largest guns, and if you came in with a bigger gun, you could set down your own rules, at least until Lofwyr said fuck you.
Except this wasn't how Flux Berlin worked, but hey, why read books when you can make shit up.
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This is more like an EP-style Anarcho-Collectivist habitat, where the community sets rules by horizontal democracy and enforces them. It's very unlike most EP Anarcho-Collectivist habitats in banning weapons, hard drugs, colors, bulletproof clothing (wtf? why?!), fireworks/thunderflashes (what's a thunderflash - a noisemaker?) and stolen goods.
Because, in a nutshell, most Northern Europeans don't like weapons as much as Americans do, and want to keep them out of their lives as much as possible (Christianans, grown out of the peace movement, also tend to be pacifists). Bulletproof clothes are necessary only if there're weapons around (though I suspect this is also a jab against the police). Thunderflashes are very large, loud thundercrackers that carry enough punch to be considered weapons in most of Europe, usually imported from China. the no stolen goos/drugs ban might well be to keep themselves in the clean with the government. Tha cars ban is ideology as well as a desire to not have their narrow little streets clogged by them. The ban on biker clothes is necessary because MCs are the North European mafia equivalent.
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Seems odd, but then their logic is probably along the lines of there are no weapons so you do not need the armor and then following on with this line of thought they would say that having body armour would only encourage weapons.
Also because of rather radical pacifism, but that's the line of reasoning in a nutshell. It also makes cops dress down when going there, I suppose.