Culture and history

Brunei is a Muslim sultanate state, where attitudes towards gambling have historically been determined by religious norms and a conservative way of life.

Any form of money gambling was seen as socially harmful and incompatible with religious values; in everyday life, only non-ordinary entertainment (national games, family holidays) was preserved without bets and prizes.

As the state modernized, the ban received a clear legal framework: sharia provisions and secular norms enshrined "zero tolerance" for casinos, bookmakers and lotteries, and the cultural agenda - education, family values ​ ​ and healthy leisure - supplanted excitement from the public sphere.

The result is a stable cultural and legal attitude against gambling, supported by society and institutions.