Does Alpha State still criminalize mutations? Well -- SPOILER ALERT! --
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--given that The Computer has set up Alpha State as an experiment, I would assume unregistered mutations there are still illegal, because The Computer would regard unregistered mutations as so obvious a threat to good order that anyone, even misguided traitorous Communists, would certainly outlaw them. I mean, that just make sense. Ahem.
Sheesh, does the text not address that? Bad, bad editor! Treason point for the editor! Oh wait, that's me.