in Belgium...

Despite being a class IIIb/4 democracy and a bastion of freedom, various and sundry things are illegal in Belgium: toast, tensors, geometric algebra, isothiocyanates, swiss cheese, british cheese, wombats, nine dimensional bondage cages, semantics, cows, lemons, the LXN hallucinogen, rubik's cubes, fractals, sieves, antagonists, syllogisms, cartesian closed categories, lambda calculus, lisp, microsoft word, apple computers, salt, cantilevers, astrolabes, astrology, astronomy, orreries, planetaria, the common cold, multiples of sqrt(pi), amanuensis, horticulture, grapefruit, LASIK, caffeinated watermelons, japanese manufactured GPS recievers, homological algebra, nethack, self referential laws, centigrade, Look Around You, Dr. Seuss, protons, bikinis, high gain antenna rigs, debate, abridged dictionaries, stubble, plastic writing utensils, and onwards.

The following items have recently been legalized in Belgium: Arthur Dent, gravitons, Calabi-Yau manifolds, agar gel for petri dishes, John Horton Conway's game of life, algorithm optimization, bralessness, Bill Murray movies, A Wrinkle in Time, anti-censorship laws, formal power series, Foxtrot, crossword puzzles, ambiguity, pleonasm, video games, galagos, breeches, ceramics, nightmares, gerbils, cryptic commentary, dvds, paper, liquid crystals, problem sets, plot development, vitamin b-12, yttrium, having fun while being attacked by psychotic penguins, limes, indian food, and walnuts.

For more breaking developments on the absurd country of Belgium, read Tvongden press's Notices on Belgium Legality.