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=== Abolition and Legacy ===
The Pax Drone policy was subject to controversy and scrutiny since its inception, and these only mounted as the number of citizens subjected to the policy expanded. Ironically, it was periods of economic turbulence that brought forward successive challenges to the policy. Depressions frequently created scenarios where even the less-impoverished and marginalized classes in Packilvania might struggle with their outstanding debts and thus face the grim prospects of being subjected to forced labor. This inevitably created pushback and outcries that could not be easily ignored, and as a result the Drone policy was steadily attrited and limited almost from its moment of inception. The implementation of modern bankruptcy laws in the 2000s almost entirely defanged the Drone policy, even as it lived on in theory.
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The Drone policy was formally ended in 2022 as a part of wider government reforms that have been attributed to the rise of a new generation of Packilvanian leaders, such as the then-[[Crown Prince of Packilvania|Crown Prince]] [[Thumim V]].
Pax Drones are legally citizens of [[Packilvania]] however they have sold their labour for a period of 7 to 21 years to creditors due to defaulting on debt. According to the [[Council of Ministers of Packilvania|Packilvanian government]], this policy was designed to enabled poor families to accumulate and protect their wealth even if they have fallen on hard times. Indeed, [[Packilvania]] has become one of the wealthiest nations in the world by total assets owned by citizens since the policy was introduced. However, analysts argue that wealth generation in [[Packilvania]] has arisen due to economic growth and high stock prices.
Despite its abolishment, the Drone policy continues to have lingering effects both in Packilvania and around the world. Nations such as the [[Free Pacific States]] continue to host large numbers of former Pax Drones who had fled as asylum seekers and refugees. Additionally, forced labor remains a fact of life in Packilvanian prisons, although these facilities now enjoy far less autonomy and cannot freely lease out their prisoners, and financial profit is no longer the primary stated goal. Further, individuals can still be imprisoned for failing to pay certain government and court fines, which have a disproportionate impact on marginalized groups.
Although Pax Drones are regarded as full citizens of Packilvania, sapient rights activists regard the Drone Policy as a form of state-sponsored slavery. The owner or lessor of a Pax Drone's labour can rent, sell, lease or sublease the labour of a drone to others. Pax Drones have no control over whom they work for and what work they are required to do during the period that they are under this system. Furthermore, their rights are circumscribed and their status is reduced to mere property. Their movement and actions are controlled and dictated by their owners including procreation and romance, eating, hygiene etc. Their owners are entitled to use physical force against them in order to discipline them. Despite some laws to protect Drones form excessive force, the reality is that owners are brutal and often kill Drones without consequences.
Pax Drones have been used by the Packilvanian government as mercenaries for hire via various foreign relations programs (refer to [[Foreign relations of Packilvania]] for more information). Pax Drones have also been used as farm and factory labour construction, and sanitation workers. Despite prohibitions by Paxism on using Drones for allegedly immoral work such as prostitution, drug trafficking and violent crime, there have been reports of Drones being used in this capacity. As many as 20 million to 100 million people were subjected to this policy at its height. Considerable numbers of Pax Drones exist in foreign nations including nominally democratic societies where their legal status is obfuscated by Packilvanian legal jargon. [[Free Pacific States]] hosts the largest community of former Pax Drones outside of the Paxsphere as many of them are asylum seekers and refugees. Some nations have declared the Drone Policy as a crime against sapientkind.
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