Equal Opportunity

We have similar protected characteristics to those of the United Kingdom.

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00:00: [Foreboding orchestral music]; [Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
00:22: [Music]; [Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory)]
00:32: This is New Albion on Mars
00:36: We strictly control access to opportunity; to ensure fairness.
00:41: We have similar protected characteristics to; those of the United Kingdom, but occasionally
00:46: more extensively enforced so that some Earth; 'opportunities' may appear to be lost here.
00:54: We override age discrimination to; compel children to attend
00:58: statutory schooling, as is common on Earth.
01:02: New Albion schools may treat children; differently on the basis of age, for year
01:06: cohorts, but are not permitted to treat; children differently on the basis of sex.
01:13: The most visible consequence of this is that; 'school uniform' is a single design for all
01:19: schoolchildren - there is no separate uniform; for girls and for boys as is common in the UK.
01:27: Spirituality is a personal; matter at New Albion.
01:32: It is not permitted to employ spirituality for; commerce, nor is it permitted as the basis for
01:39: organisation, nor as basis for public policy,; nor for public policy argument.
01:46: Just as you may not have a "Mens Club" at
01:49: New Albion, you may not form an; organisation based on spirituality.
01:55: This in no way restricts faithful; people from enjoying
01:58: their faith together, should they wish to.
02:02: It is not permitted to compel another by; any means to share your faith.
02:08: Ancestry - apparent or factual - is likewise; strictly irrelevant.
02:14: Just as an individual may not *employ*; putative ancestry for gain,
02:18: discriminating in a way that implies; ancestral prejudice is prohibited.
02:25: We neither promote the idea of 'ethnicity'; nor routinely collect statistics about it.
02:32: Everyone at New Albion 'comes from' New Albion.
02:40: [Dissonant clashing orchestral music]; [Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
02:57: [orchestral music continues]