After discussing certain specific details with the Ministry of Commerce and the senior executives of several directly affiliated state-owned enterprises, Ernst summoned Sharen, the head of the Immigration Office.
The East African Immigration Office had always held a rather prominent position among East Africa's state organs. One could tell from its name alone: even a powerful institution like the National Security Bureau could only be called a bureau, while an office carried certain special implications.
The Immigration Office had once rendered outstanding service to East Africa's national construction. After all, East Africa had started from nothing and, in just a few short decades, developed into a top-tier populous nation with over a hundred million people. The Immigration Office had played an important role.
Although the large-scale introduction of immigrants into the East African mainland had ended after the turn of the century, the power of the East African Immigration Office had not been greatly affected.
Its work had begun shifting toward greater refinement and complexity. On one hand, the mainland needed to bring in large numbers of high-end talents; on the other, East Africa's many colonies required large populations for development. Finally, the Immigration Office was also carrying out infiltration activities in other countries and regions.
This brought up the world's three most important German states: East Africa, Germany, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. All three German states could be called peculiar flowers, and all three had locked horns with dualism.
The most typical, naturally, was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There was no need to say much about it; its very name was a combination of Austria and Hungary.
But how was Germany connected to dualism? It lay in Germany's top-level design: a dual-core constitutional monarchy. Germany had two centers of power, the German Emperor and parliament.
As for East Africa, it