"Finger Cutting Decree" would become the primary means of dealing with those in Maliro who had criminal records or were under suspicion, starting from this day.
Of course, if these people were willing to go to the Concentration Camp on their own initiative, then such measures would not be necessary.
Since you posed a danger, you had to make a choice.
If you wanted freedom, then you had to lose your thumbs, ensuring that the Federal Government's freedom would not become an opportunity for you to attack Federal citizens!
If you wanted to keep your fingers and your ability to work, then your best choice was to obediently stay in the Concentration Camp.
Although forced labor was imposed there, at least you would keep your fingers—and your life.
If you wanted neither choice, then a bullet was the only remaining option.
After the Federal people announced this decree, it immediately provoked considerable opposition throughout Maliro, especially in the unoccupied areas.
In the occupied areas, however, there was not only little resistance to this Federal law, but many places even expressed strong support for it.
When all was said and done, there were only a few reasons why Maliro's situation had been so chaotic for so many years.
First, the Central Government was too weak, while the warlords were too powerful. The warlords had split the entire country into separate regions, then ruled those people through ethnic hatred, turning them against one another.
Second, poverty.
Poverty was the Original Sin. On top of that, only a tiny number of warlords under warlord rule would develop cities and improve people's livelihoods. The people living in Maliro could only be forced to accept their chaotic country.
If they wanted to survive, their only option was to join the chaos.
Now, social order in