Memo Title: Bureaucracy in the X empire
Category: World phenomenon
Memo:
As the X empire found the correlation between the amount of bureaucracy and the level of the king and nobility, the bureaucracy in X empire is made as inefficient as possible. The inefficiency was made to encourage complaint from the citizens, thus, generating what is termed as Experience for its bureaucrat. As the nobility employ the bureaucrat to solve the problem, then they also get the same experience. Thus, there are tendency of X empire to employ short-term solution to the problem they have. Of course, any short term solution that is preferred by the bureaucrat sometimes make another problem in long term.
In consequence, more problem is solved as quick as possible, thus raising the satisfaction of its citizens to the empire. This has effect of more productivity from the citizen.
The same effect is also observed in tax. The government subtly encourage their taxpayers to pay the tax late, by having small consequences when the citizen was late in paying their tax for the first three month. Of course, to balance this, the citizen are encouraged to pay their tax within six months, as the consequence for not paying their tax after that is a long jail time. For the first few cases, they made public of the system by jailing the one who did not pay, yet still have their obligation to do so. As the cycle of not being able to pay perpetuated, this discouraged the citizens.
The result of this made the bureaucrat to be a highly sought position, as they can level up easily by commanding the one below them. Thus, this give the citizen the incentive to study more. This made the rate of education rise for the citizen. To simulate this, the school also made in this system, where the senior could order their junior. To balance that, the junior is allowed to refuse if the task is unreasonable. This system is enforced to make sure the senior did not step their authority, and encourage the junior to gain more knowledge, as they can test out to get to higher grade. Of course, in the end the king and the nobles still hold the highest position in the hierarchy. As the exp of the bureaucrat trickle to them, they leveled up the most in the system without any risk.
