The regulations and specs are all well and good but they are useless if there is no enforcement. If one can find their way out by bribing officials or by simply building first and getting "peace" or "amnesty" afterwards, regulations will not help much.

Watch this with English subtitles (an ad by government): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJGueK-Ocgg . State exists to solve the problems of its citizens :(