Censorship
The Dominion polices publicly available content through the Cultural Bureau (in conjunction with the Communications Bureau, Vizerate and Legion.)
Publishing
It is illegal to produce more than 49 copies (being substantively similar, not identical) of a document without Cultural Bureau approval or a Publisher’s Licence (which license requires application of the Cultural Bureau regulations.)
Note that musical compositions, vids, textual works, poems and prose whether written or oral, and images are considered documents for the pusposes of the regulations.
Fiction Realism and Naturalism
“Well, ‘realism’ is the Dominion’s, ah, ‘officially preferred‘ style of writing. There are a bunch of ‘approved story formulas’ for writers to use when creating stories. It’s called realism because the Dominion likes stories that have a purpose and ‘serve society and the Dominion’, so the stories are ‘real things’ with ‘real use’.
“Naturalism is the stories that don’t follow one of the approved formulas. There’s less of them about. It’s much harder to get a work approved for broad distribution if it isn’t a realist work.”
“Then there are the ‘banned works’ of course.”
And Clyde Brownej expands:
“It’s possible to navigate the regulations and get a Naturalist, that’s any non-Realist work, approved, but it’s a lot of effort and I’ve only ever bothered doing it for clients, not for myself.”
Clyde would add for clarification to Ipan’s statement, that all works are considered either ‘Realist’ or ‘Naturalist’, and ‘Banned’ works are those that are not approved as a result of the process into which the classification of Realist or Naturalist feeds.