Chapter 1570: No Drinking Unless Necessary
Among the remarks people made when discussing the government, there was one term called "bureaucracy."
But if you asked these people exactly when something counted as bureaucracy, they might not be able to give you an answer right away. They would only stammer that, anyway, bureaucracy was bureaucracy.
In the Federation, this so-called criticism of bureaucracy did not occur very often.
That was because the Federation's governmental system was sound. Were its politicians and staff conscientious and responsible? Of course not. Even politicians in a capitalist society pursued efficiency and value. They had no time to stop and indulge in bureaucracy.
It might indeed exist, but it was rarely seen.
In countries where bureaucracy truly existed, the social structure was often an integrated whole that had developed with "power" as its foundation. Gefra was one such country! Gefra's society had been built on a foundation with the aristocracy as its ruling core. The aristocracy possessed privileges, and in this country, those privileges represented the highest power!
For the politicians of that country, what they did and did not do was not decided by capitalists who spent all day revolving around money, nor by the people at the bottom.
It was decided by them! Everyone knew that absolute power led to absolute corruption. Perhaps absolute power did not exist in Gefra's power-centered society, but corruption certainly did.
That was also one of the core elements that made up "bureaucracy." When corruption ran rampant, people would find ways to deceive everyone in order to cover up that "rotten flesh."
They would use flowery words and hypocritical behavior to advertise their own value. Such attempts to fool the public with outward appearances happened all the time.
Even in this war! The number of tanks the Federation had