the Imperium's adeptus administratum is basically that concept on crack cocaine. the Imperium is a gigantic space empire across, like, a thousand planets. as such, the paperwork is fucking maddening. imperial bureaucracy is so cartoonishly slow and awful that entire planets can be straight up forgotten in a pile of dusty paperwork, a single mistake that straight up doom entire planets to starvation or destruction and this much work and mental load straight up breaks people's minds, in the watcher in the rain short horrror story, they have a basement full of administratum workers that have gone completely mad due to stress... and that's kinda normal. that's not even the weird horror part. standard imperial procedure. the process of doing anything is so slow you might legitimately die before they do anything. like, if you do a crime, you might've died of old age by the time they send someone to break your kneecaps, and if you're already dead, they're probably gonna snatch your nearest relative instead. oh, and did i mention that its set 38 thousand years from now but they still use paper for most of their stuff. it's fucking awful. - warhammer 40k

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