Article M-999 - Administrative Detention

"By administrative order of the State of Wildoria, your liberty is suspended for the specified term. This measure sits outside ordinary criminal procedure and is not subject to recidivism escalation."

Most of the Code answers offenses the State can name. M-999 answers the rest. It is the reserve clause - the article the State invokes when public order is plainly at stake but the matter does not sit cleanly under debt, property, violence, or sworn duty. The term carried by an M-999 detention is not set in advance; it is named on the order itself, by the authority that issues it, and the verdict reads only what the order reads.

On No Escalation

Repeat M-999 detentions are not gathered together under the Recidivism Clause. Each administrative hold is judged on its own ground, and the Court records no compounding multiplier against the citizen. The State's reasoning is that the article is too broad to be escalated fairly: two M-999 detentions may have nothing in common but their chapter, and the Code refuses to treat them as the same offense.

On the Record

Every M-999 detention is filed with a written reason from the issuing authority. The note is preserved with the sentence record and may be surfaced in the citizen's verdict at the State's discretion. The Code's preference is for plain dealing: a citizen detained under M-999 is owed an account of why.