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<nowiki>|</nowiki>first_run={{July 14-15, 2018|}} in Bengtsår, Finland
<nowiki>|</nowiki>name=Jotta vahva ei sortaisi heikkoa
<nowiki>|</nowiki>participants= around 40
<nowiki>|</nowiki>duration= 24 hours
<nowiki>|</nowiki><nowiki>website={{}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki>designers={{Aino Haavisto, Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen}}
<nowiki>|techniques={{}</nowiki><nowiki>}</nowiki>
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'''Jotta vahva ei sortaisi heikkoa ('''Eng. ''So That the Strong Should Not Harm the Weak'') was a larp about the Hammurabi Code and the judicial system in ancient Mesopotamia. During the larp, judges from the city of Uruk came to the fictitious town of Kaprum, located by the river Euphrates. They had been invited there to solve a dispute over an inheritance. The larp was set in the temple of Nabu, the god of literacy, scribes, and wisdom. At the temple, various court hearings were held, where the locals could accuse each other of crimes or bring up various disputes for the judges to solve. The title of the larp is a part of In the preamble for the Hammurabi Code, "so that the strong should not harm the weak" is mentioned as one of the rationales behind the law, hence the title of the larp.
The designers described the genre of the larp as historical drama. The focus was on personal relationships, the fates of individual human beings, and disputes between people. It was a slow-paced larp that was structured around the court hearings and focused on atmosphere, community and culture. There were various period pastimes available. One could e.g. play the ancient Mesopotamian boardgame Game of Ur or take part in a debate contest hosted by the high priest. In the evening, people would tell stories by the fireplace.
In addition to the inheritance case, there were other cases brought to the judges. A mason was accused because he had built a house that fell down causing the death of the son of the owner, and a couple was accused of adultery. The players of the judges were instructed to start the first hearing around two hours into the larp, and hold the last one in the morning of the second day. Verdicts would not be issued before the morning so that players could have meaningful play even if their characters would be sentenced to death. After the final court hearing, there was a scripted scene where the adulterous couple was executed by drowning.