Hungarian Homeland Security Act

The Hungarian Homeland Security Act (Hungarian: Magyar Belbiztonsági Törvény) was a law proclaimed on October 15, 1875 in the Kingdom of Hungary. It formed a package of security measures regulating the Hungarian entry and naturalization policies, which had been rather lax before.

Background
During summer of 1875, France was plagued by several heavy bomb attacks in Paris, mostly committed by citizens of the British Empire. At the same time, there was also an arson attack in Budapest, which heavily damaged many buildings in the city and even destroyed a few completely, committed by a Hungarian citizen.

The consequence was that several nations – such as France and Hungary themselves, the Byzantine Empire, Belgium, Lunda, Canada, Qing etc. – passed resolutions to restrict the entries of citizens of certain nations into their territories. Unlike the other countries, who officially announced "closing borders", Hungary talked about "security measures" instead. Most countries, although they all, especially France, stayed very careful, abolished these restrictions some time later. Hungary, however, kept it.

Entry onto Hungarian territory
Citizens of following countries were guaranteed to entry Hungary without being bothered (here listed in alphabetical order):

The Lopez House of Spain was considered a sovereign diplomatic entity and was, unlike any other Spanish citizens, allowed to enter Hungary.
 * Bavaria
 * Belgium
 * Byzantine Empire
 * Caribbean Federation
 * Colombia
 * France
 * Italy
 * Netherlands
 * North Germany
 * Qing
 * Russian Empire
 * Switzerland

The freedom to entry automatically applied on succession states of the countries listed (e.g. The Holy Roman Empire).

Citizens of any other countries required a special permission. There was shooting command against any trespassers.

Naturalization and expatriatation
The law also changed the dealing with the Hungarian citizenship: Hungary stopped naturalizing any citizens falling below a certain age. Citizens of allied states kept their right to a Hungarian citizenship in case of desire, while everyone else required a special invitation.

With this law, Hungary introduced the expatriatation penalty. The destruction of structures in Hungary and in any other state (within peace times only) as well as harming the reputation of the nation by e.g. publically insulting leaders of ally or truce states were offenses which were considered treason by the Royal house and henceforth would be punished by revocation of citizenship.

Modifications
Since its proclamation, the law has been modified a few times.

1878, July 26
Hungary started to inhabit Hungarian South Africa and established good relationships to the neighboring Transvaal, which led to its adding onto the list of countries with free access to Hungarian territory (explicitly including the mainland).

1879, September 18
As a consequence of the socialist uprising in Russia and the Sopron attack, General Sloven Selakov, in substitute of King Ratko Nadj Szalay, introduced border controls at the Russian border.