On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 8:11 PM, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

It could very well be that failure to pay the appropriate bribe will land your routine request for (say) an export license on the desk of the one Bwap in the local office...

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Douglas Berry <dberry49xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

This literal Celestial Bureaucracy will have offices on almost every world of the Imperium, even if it's four bored C&M agents who spend the day playing cards. But their main jobs is data.

Oh, Look. The Bwap Mafia.... Whose idea of fun is spending their days scanning for spelling and Punctuation in reports that flow through their offices....

Or . . . maybe paying the *right* bribe gets you to the one Bwap in the office.

Because - unlike human bureaucrats who use their positions to play dominance games as if they were still swinging from trees in the jungle - Bwaps focus their efforts on actually doing their jobs with the utmost efficiency possible.

Richard Aiken

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