For Japan, I think allowing income tax redirection to a "home town" is a really good model to keep infrastructure funded in more rural areas that suffer from brain drain/exodus.

> laws that make the world a better place

That's a bizarre starting point to me. Iphone / Android made/make the world a better place. There were no laws mandating creation of them!

I'm not saying that you need laws to make the world better, just that some of them do.

This belongs in that category in my opinion because it is something that costs very little in absolute terms (manufacturer has to run some tests and print some numbers that they probably already had), but it makes the whole system work better because it enables people to vote with their wallet, and gets inefficient products eliminated because people can spot them before sale.

No company would advertise a "20% below average battery lifetime" without regulation like this, which is why objectively bad devices can still get sold easily on unregulated markets.

I'm pretty sure Australian consumer protection laws are why Steam started offering refunds.