You generally know something about how serious a company or government views a rule by seeing what accountability standard or penalty is imposed for failing to comply with that rule.
There is a trick here, which Shelton very nearly pulls off: so artless is her approach, with its ambling conversation and hovering, on-the-spot camerawork, and so generous are her actors (Delmore being the standout) that we wind up half-believing what is, by any standard, a ridiculous conceit.