The kingdom of Psing-pour

Let me post another story created by me and my then boyfriend on captivity fantasies. It is the story of the prisoners of Psing-pour.

Psing-pour was a relatively ancient kingdom, whose history records have been deleted by time. Recent discoveries, however, carried out by the researchers of the Konteen-Konteen University, in association with the International Society of Independent Archeologists (ISIA), made the history of the kingdom reemerge from obscurity and obliviousness.

Concerning the subject that directly affects me (and my then boyfriend, and another mad people like us), I must say that Psing-pour had an absolutist ruling dictator - the High Tutor. The justice was in the hands of the High Tutor, who decided based upon a code of strict  disciplinary rules. Albeit being a kind of dictatorship, the kingdom government preserved some important issues on human rights: there was no capital punishment or life imprisonment, as well the crime of rape was strongly and cruelly repressed by means of exemplary punishments for those who dared perpetrate it. For this last reason, rape was practically an extinguished crime in Psing-pour, his prohibition being as internalised as a taboo.

The High Tutor was the only and unique instance of justice. It is supposed to infer that this aforementioned authority was as wise as possible, full of high moral teachings to deliver. It is, however, impossible to affirm this in the current state of research.

Let´s go to the story, which is what interests us, right? The criminals in Psing-pour - men and women - were sentenced to forced labour. The custody sentence time depended on the gravity of the crime committed, as well of the behaviour of the inmate in prison and labour. All the convicts, in order to make it more difficult for them attempting escape, had to serve time stark naked and, depending on the crime, in chains. The nakedness was, firstly, humiliating, since, apparently, the sense of modesty, decency and shame was similar to the one in the current Western civilisations. Besides that, it made the prisoners feel very uncomfortable during the moderate winter times in Psing-pour; once all the forced labour required  intense physical activity from the inmates, the cold season greatly stimulated them for a better productivity...

There was no rest for the prisoners: they are submitted per day to twelve hours of labour - seven days a week, with no holidays, in sunny, rainy or even in the rare snowy days. Despite the cruelty related to the labour conditions, the prisoners were well-treated regarding their alimentary and health care needs. They had per day ninety minutes to have three meals, five minutes to take a bath, fifteen minutes (five in the morning, five in the afternoon, and five in the evening) to pee and/or crap, besides the right to sick "leave", all under rigorous watching. In order to avoid feigned illnesses, the sick "leave" time was not taken into account to the total sentence time. Having all the limbs spread-eagled and tied, the prisoners had to sleep (or rest in the infirmary) laying on their back, in order to prevent masturbation, what was an severe additional punishment...

Those criminals who were considered more dangerous to society were thieves and murderers, besides the rapers, who were practically extinguished. For those convicts, the forced labour in mines were their destiny and fate. Women and men worked in different groups and mines. The poor girls had to do the same hard job that the boys did... And all the mentioned punishments for sure made them feel like they had never been born...

Good behaviour was the first commandment for those who wanted to get free. Each year, a three-month were discounted from the sentence time for the good girls. Instead, bad behaviour certainly increased the sentence time, depending on the High Tutor's judgement.

Regarding attempts of escape, they were almost impossible. Firstly, Psing-pour was a small island. The seas around it were very tormentous. There was a little strip of the coastline washed by a little more serene waters, due to a part of a very long and too narrow sandbank about one mile offshore. Besides that, there was the strict vigilance and the fact that the mine was located near the town, in a region protect by two sequences of high defensive walls, each of them with an only gate. In the most distant part of the island from the town, beyond the second defensive wall, there was a harbour for great ships. If the fugitive, however, managed to reach the harbour of the town, he could find a boat to go to the sandbank. This sandbank was, in reality, an island most of the time, because its point near the continent was covered by the sea most of the year. Only few days a year could somebody pass in safe from the sandbank to the continent, by swimming or even by foot. The continent was too distant from the island to be reached by swimming or by boat, because of the stormy sea. Then, there were two alternatives to escape: from the big harbour, by ship, or by the uncovered point of the sandbank near the continent, what depended on the tide. The map below explains better.

Besides having to surpass all these obstacles, the fugitives had to put some clothes on... otherwise everyone could recognize them...