OP's beef was with the existence of complex rules - not that the complex rules have force of law. You and the other respondent gave examples of where complex r

OP's beef was with the existence of complex rules - not that the complex rules have force of law. You and the other respondent gave examples of where complex rules will arise even if the state doesn't come up with them. Presumably the "coder in Sacha" would hate all those "if/else" statements just as much. But they just don't apply to the OP - unless the OP becomes a football coach or starts operating a fishery, he can just ignore them. (I did mean to start my original comment "You're just not encapsulating reality properly".)