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"I am an invisible social contract. Break me and face social disapproval. I require no enforcement yet it is remarkably effective. I is a very British institution. What am I?"

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Answer: A Queue. A queue is maintained entirely by social convention — there is no physical enforcement. Yet queue-jumping triggers genuine social anger. Britain is famous for its orderly queuing culture, considered a matter of basic fairness.

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