• Nobody dies alone. CITIZEN STREET might be at the bottom of the city, but nobody will be left dying alone or rotting up.

• Everybody arriving to CITIZEN STREET arrives from a tragedy. Therefore compasion is a groundrule.

• Your origins and religion matter, but who you arrive with to the street matters more.

• Orphans arriving to the street are sacred and never beaten

• Any man who could potentially be the father of a child has some obligations to the mother and the kid

• If you are born in the street you wont leave it until with the feet first

• When hunger strikes all of the above rules are void!

• Your rule: please feel free to suggest aditional rules by sending a mail to gamlehest@me.com. Thank you.

• The further you live in the backyards away from the street the poorer you are. Kids from third backyard have lice and flee and are avoided by the others.

• The higher you live in a building the poorer you are. Drunks, old, demented and women with a lot of kids.

• The owner of the fronthouse usually owns all the backyards and everybody pays rent to them. They have often inherited the buildings through several generations.

• People building sheds in the backyards pay rent to the people in the neighbouring buildings

• Your rule: please suggest aditional rules by sending a mail to gamlehest@me.com. Thank you.

• You never Never NEVER light a fire in the backyards

• Sick people only use the latrine in the last backyard marked with a cross

• Knives, saws, spades, hammers and other objects that can be used as weapons have to be taken inside after dark

• Your rule: please suggest aditional rules by sending a mail to gamlehest@me.com. Thank you.

• General laws of society are imposed by a few patroling police officers, but not obeyed in CITIZEN STREET.

• Moving into the backyards: problems and disagreements are solved localy and usually the craftsman in the first yard (smith, carpenter etc) gets the final say or gives a final verdict

• There are also plenty of official rules in the backyards, with signs all over: eg. sign like "Cycling, ball games, roller skating in the yard strictly prohibited." But like laws they are never obeyed. 

• Disagreements and negotiations between compounds are solved by the owners of the streethouse

• During WW2 the street is basically without law enforcement as the wermacht doesn't allow their soldiers to be patrolling in the street - in particular after dark.

• Your rule: please suggest aditional rules by sending a mail to gamlehest@me.com. Thank you.

• You don't talk to the police.

• You don't borrow money from the bank or outsiders: the economy must stay in the street.

• You must not create so many problems that it becomes a problem for the street itself.

• You only steal from outsiders.

• You may very well do business with the other CITIZENS but if extortion and bullying threatens the social balance it's just wrong,

• You have to pay fines for making mistakes. And you are not allowed to talk to anybody except the person you owe money until the fine is payed.

• You may not pimp prostitues under 15 years.

• Prostitutes are not allowed to take underage customers (12 years in 1932 and 15 years after 1933).

• Homosexuals are a source of income, and are therefore protected

• Your rule: please suggest aditional rules by sending a mail to gamlehest@me.com. Thank you.

Besides the overall rules there are a plethora of unique rules tied to single characters, individual compunds and even specific objects. Such as:

• Never get beaten up by the policeman nicknamed Baryton. He might be small - but his temper is out of control.

• Never sit at the bench in compound number 7. This is where the smith eats his lunch and drinks his beer

• No kids in backyard 5A after dark (by the outdoor bar)

• Don't make fun of the shit collector or he wont empty the latrines for weeks

• Kids may not collect metal for selling in other backyards/compounds than their own.

• Your rule: please suggest aditional rules by sending a mail to gamlehest@me.com. Thank you.