In the Last Census here Thousands of people who had no religious conviction, rather than putting "none" in the religion box put "jedi".
The reason for this is that if a certain percentage of the populatiuon put it down then the government would have to recognise it as a real religion.

It turns out now that they are going to ignore all entries of Jedi as a religion.

I think this sets a dangerous precident, I also think it would have been a good laugh if they had run with it

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