In fact an average citizen or a resident of a particular country usually doesn't know even 1% of its laws and can't get the laws to read for free - you have to

In fact an average citizen or a resident of a particular country usually doesn't know even 1% of its laws and can't get the laws to read for free - you have to either buy books or a DRM-ed database, all these are copyrighted. I actually find this ridiculous, if a state wants people to comply to its laws it should make all these laws easily available to everybody for free.