Timeline of Bureaucratic Feats

Early Years (1800-1900)

• 1852: The Great Paperwork Shuffle: Minister of Red Tape introduces first ever standardized form, revolutionizing the way citizens apply for permits.
• 1867: The Invention of the Bureaucratic Wheel: a contraption so complex, it's a wonder anyone ever managed to get anything done.
• 1885: The First Ever Departmental Reorg: a massive restructuring that created 17 new departments, 23 new subdepartments, and 42 redundant committees.

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20th Century (1900-2000)

• 1921: The Great Red Tape Revolt: a brief but intense uprising of clerks demanding more pens and a better break room.
• 1955: The Introduction of Form 27-B/6: a behemoth of a form, rumored to be the bane of many a citizen's existence.
• 1987: The Invention of the Autofill Pen: a marvel of modern technology that made paperwork even more tedious.

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21st Century (2000-Present)

• 2001: The Great Data Dump: a catastrophic event where all records were digitized, but nobody could find anything.
• 2010: The Rise of the Robo-Signatory: a mechanical pen that never ran out of ink, but always seemed to run out of batteries.
• 2019: The Invention of the Automated Answer Generator: a machine that gave perfectly adequate answers to every question, but never actually listened.

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