Uhh. Okay so it’s like 19th century Mediteranean france, and some guy has invented the ruler but to get funding he has to marry the son of a rich measuring tape magnet, but he’s not gay, but he is gay, and via hijinks he comes to understand himself better and falls in love for real and that’s the secret origin story of rules.
Someone was going on about “well stalin was bad but we’re not there yet” and it’s like the great purge killed 750;000 people over 20ish years we are vastly beyond anything Stalin had nightmares about.