Development Plan

Mariana shook her head. "Are you crazy? There are so many people in this world. How could you possibly record every detail of their lives one by one?"

Paul refuted her. "Please don't exaggerate what I said. I only meant creating records for the people under my rule."

Mariana said, "You don't even know how many people there are in your own territory!"

Paul chuckled. "You're mistaken. As of last December, Arda had a total of 536,873 people, of whom the men..."

He explained Arda's population figures in detail according to various categories, leaving Mariana staring at him in astonishment.

"You... Could it be that you've recorded every single person in your territory..."

The population figure, accurate down to the last digit, truly shocked Mariana.

"Yes. I conducted a thorough survey of everyone, and recorded it all."

Paul answered in a deeply proud tone.

Registering every household and establishing a complete census had been an important task of the Statistics Committee, which had been established earlier. However, the task had now been transferred to the Department of Civil Affairs under the Government Affairs Council.

He dared to guarantee that there was no other lord in this world who could understand his subjects as thoroughly as he did.

Mariana did not understand why Paul was going to such lengths. Could her son have an almost pathological need for control? She sighed.

"No one has ever done this before. I imagine there will be many problems."

Paul said with a resolute expression, "No system is perfect at the beginning. Someone has to take the first step."

At that moment, Thomas, the Chief Judge, who had remained silent all this time, said, "My lord, establishing a file for every person is an enormous undertaking. It will surely increase administrative costs considerably."

"So?" Paul