Princess Lamashtu Morningstar, President of the Senate and Mistress of the Hellhound Kennels, sat at her desk writing. She had a new law to propose to the Senate, one that ought to put those upstarts Tenebra and Atargatis in their place... and their place was groveling at her talons like the good little slaves they ought to be. She dipped her quill into red ink and began to write.
Proposition 13666
Demons of recent human origin are forbidden from holding high office in Hell. Being clearly inferior to Hellborn demons in all respects (humans being largely non-magical as well as the favored creations of God), such beings have no right to hold high office in Hell's government or its military. Recent human origin is defined as any transformation from human to demon occurring more recently than the year 2000 BC.
The following restrictions shall apply to demons of recent human origin:
It is forbidden for any demon to take a demon of recent human origin as a co-equal consort. The penalty of this shall be a fine of an amount determined by the presiding magistrate as well as the immediate execution of the former human. In the case of tainted marriages made official before the passing of this law, the penalty instead is the demotion of the offending spouse to slave-spouse and any offspring being declared illegitimate. It shall remain legal to take demons of recent human origin as slave-wives.
No demon of recent human origin shall be appointed to a courtly rank higher than servant. The penalty to any official who appoints a demon of recent human origin to a rank above its station is dismissal of the violating official from court and the execution of the offending promoted ex-human.
No demon of recent human origin shall be appointed to a military rank higher than corporal. The penalty to any officer who appoints a demon of recent human origin to a rank above its station is dismissal of the violating officer from the armed forces and the execution of the offending promoted ex-human.
Demon of recent human origin, being naturally at war with all that true demons stand for and aligned with angelic mentality, are to be subject to a separate penal system than true demons. For the first offense of non-capital crimes, the penalty shall be 50,000 years of hard labor in the sulfur mines in the case of males or life as a slave-wife in the case of females. The penalty shall be death for the second offense.
All demons of recent human origin are to be subjected to annual questioning by the secret police regarding their activities over the past year. The Chief of the Secret Police may deal with the ex-human as he or she sees fit.
Demons of recent human origin are forbidden from owning property. They may, however, continue to rent property from true demons.
Demons of recent human origin do not have the right to vote.
Demons of recent human origin, in the interest of national security, may be convicted without trial.
Demons of recent human origin need written permission from their archduke or archduchess to travel between circles.
Signed,
Princess Lamashtu Morningstar, Sixth Daughter of King Lucifer, Duchess of Irkalla, Duchess Consort of Malebolge, President of the Senate, Mistress of the Hellhound Kennels, Knight of the Fly.
Lamashtu smiled to herself. That seemed like a good start to reshaping Hell into what it ought to be. She'd even made sure to specify demons of RECENT human origin to shield her mother Lilith from any fallout. Lilith had become a demon long before 2000 BC. The clause about female demons who get caught committing minor crimes being forced into harems especially brought joy to Lamashtu's icy heart. She delighted in the beauty of the female body and was eager to grow her lesbian harem.
It would pass, of course. The Senate was full of anti-human firebrands who would love nothing better than a chance to put humans in their place. The only reason they hadn't already was old Adrammelech's obsession with trying to pass as many anti-angel laws as he could get past Lucifer (which was why it was so legally difficult for angels to travel through Hell). More importantly, the law was perfectly constitutional. The peace treaty only stipulated how demons could treat beings who were human at the moment. It did not cover beings who had forsaken their humanity to become demons. Hell could deal with THEM as they liked. Enoch and Lucifer would both complain, but they couldn't stop her without alienating a majority of the nobility and a good chunk of the middle class and working class. The most they could do was stop inviting her to family get-togethers.
It was time to make Hell a paradise for TRUE demons, just as Darkness and nature intended.