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[cook_the_rude]

Bureaucracy: does it exist in your character's world, and if so, how bad is it?

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[venerable_ibis]

There is 100% totally bureaucracy in Djehuty's world and he loves every bit of it. Well. Sort of. He loves it when it's working right. But a very important part of his role in Egyptian religion is being the Good Bureaucrat (not like those other bureaucrats); as a particular representative of scribes, Djehuty got quite a few petitions through his temples to help against corrupt and unjust officials. And jerk bosses.

but he loves the smell of paperwork in the morning

[camwyn]

There is a little bit of bureaucracy in Ellen's world, depending on where you live. Most of it appears to be concentrated out west, in the New California Republic, which has a president and judges and elected officials and a ranked military and various forms of corruption to go along with all the rest. Caesar's Legion probably counts, too, for all that Caesar put most of his effort into creating a society based on Rome's military and Rome's slaves and screw everything else about Rome as an empire. You still gotta run things through the ranks, after all. In the Capital area most of it is Brotherhood of Steel bureaucracy, so it's military in focus, but there are elected officials in Rivet City and a security team that reports to them, plus I suppose there's probably something bureacratic to the surviving Vault 101 population since I doubt Amata could run the place all by herself.

Shephard's world has established about as much bureaucracy as necessary to spread leadership and governance across a handful of people that the surviving local populations of Earth trust. Alyx can't do it all alone, after all. And Shephard's been building the military with a structure he recognizes and remembers, so there's that.

Stacker Pentecost is just looking at you now, kthx.

Varric created a nonexistent cousin to attend the Dwarven Merchants' Guild's meetings and pay his dues for him rather than deal with his world's bureaucracy.

It's May of 1973 in Quicksilver's world and Richard M. Nixon is only just now coming into the Justice Department's crosshairs. There is so much bureaucracy in his world. He ignores it.

And while there is bureaucracy in Santo's world I am pretty sure that he would put it in a headlock and pin it to the floor until it gave up if it ever caused problems for him or his friends.

(I'm deleting Hernan Guerra. He's a great concept and I love Gods and Monsters, but I've never been able to get up the mojo to bring him into the Bar a second time, and I'm sorry for that.)

[feminine_menace]

Canonically, the Federal government (what's left of it) is, like, real-world Fed bureaucracy turned up to 11. The standout example is an email codifying rules about the office toilet paper pool, which you can probably find reprinted or excerpted somewhere (Google "snow crash toilet paper email").

The extent to which bureaucracy exists in other areas of life is unclear, but the Fed in YT's America provides more than enough for everybody.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess' world is supposed to be a mirror of current society, so I assume bureaucratic red tape would be the same. Of course, Tess has ways around that...

Kylo's part of a dictatorship? Absolute monarchy? I don't know names for things. Anyway, there's lots of bureaucracy and he kind of hates it. Just let him hunt Luke and Rey already.

[bjornwilde]

Sam says, "Oh hell yes," and seems quite grumpy about it. Given he has to work with the VA and all the problems the VA in our world has with serving veterans, I think you can see why.

Ahsoka: Definitely and if I ever get to bringing her in where she is in my head, she'll be learning just how much of the bureaucracy she hasn't been exposed to by being part of the Jedi Order. I imagine the bureaucracy of the Republic is pretty Byzantine and corrupt.

Sabine: Again, yes. The real question is if the Empire made a more efficient bureaucracy from the infrastructure of the Republic or a worse one. I'd guess it's a mix. Getting paperwork pushed through that benefits the Empire likely gets processed quickly, while anything that isn't in the Empire's interest is thrown into a Black Hole. Knowing people gets things down as well.

[inlovewithwords]

Evelyn: oh yes. Luckily she will have Josie to handle it.

Eriond: oh yes, but it is not his problem.

Lois: oh yes, and reasonably analogous to the real world (plus some additions).

R2: endless, but it is not usually his job to muddle through it, except when presenting a reason he and/or his human should be allowed access to somewhere or something.
Anakin: endless. The Republic is a mess, so is the Empire, and he has to keep dealing with it, honestly, why can they not just let him go kill droids/Separatists/Sith/Jedi/Rebels? Even when he is sane enough to carr about diplomatic and mercy missions, he would rather have action (unless Padme is involved, then he will volunteer).

Tavi: spending the rest of his life rebuilding the bureaucracy to support the running of his newly-acquired empire. It is not so bad yet, and obviously he will try to keep it from getting unwieldy and corrupt, but he is realistic about how these things go.

[cottoncandypink]

On some level, probably, somewhere. Someone's probably dilligently trying to maintain the illusion. But in reallity, Wilford's world is just a free-for-all cluster fuck that's one step away from complete anarchy.

[muji]

Bahahahaha the Alliance bahahahahaha.