
In Thailand it is treason-ish ( lèse majesté) to criticize the king.


(This is the country where seismologists were convicted of not predicting an earthquake, so I wouldn’t be optimistic.) In Italy it is treason to do about four dozen things, including 33 kinds of “crimes against the international personhood of the state,” whatever that means. In Japan it is known as gaikan zai, the “crime of foreign mischief,” and can be committed by foreigners as well as Japanese.
