In each case the method of execution is the same, and a rather awful one.

The culprit is thrown alive into the fiery furnace beneath one of the altars to the Sun.

For all other offences, including the offence of idleness, the punishment is forced labour upon the vast national buildings which are always going on in some part of the country, with or without periodical floggings, according to the crime.
The social system of the Zu-Vendi allows considerable liberty to the individual, provided he does not offend against the laws and customs of the country.

They are polygamous in theory, though most of them have only one wife on account of the expense.

By law a man is bound to provide a separate establishment for each wife.