It all started with the great fire of the Invention of Bureaucracy (circa 1500). Our founders, a cabal of visionaries, sought to codify the chaos of the medieval world with forms upon forms and bureaucratic procedure upon procedure.
As the Renaissance raged on, our great nation was beset on all sides by The Great Paper Pandemic of 1600. But we persevered, creating an ever-more Byzantine tapestry of rules and regulations.
And that's the history of the Department of Bureaucracy. But wait! There's more!…