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Bureaucracy
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Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring to the way that the administrative execution and enforcement of legal rules are socially organized. This office organization is characterized by standardized procedure (rule-following), formal division of responsibility, hierarchy, and impersonal relationships. Bureaucrats serve their government or corporate employers by ensuring that all processes and actions under their jurisdiction comply with directed norms. In fiction, bureaucrats are often portrayed as impersonal or even rude, valuing the rules over any personal beliefs or attachments. Bureaucracy is common to both communism and capitalism.
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Bureaucracy is therefore always a cost to society, but this cost may be accepted insofar as it makes social order possible, and maintains it by enforcing the rule of law. Nevertheless there are constant conflicts about this cost, because it has the big effect on the distribution of incomes; all producers will try to get the maximum return from what they produce, and minimize administrative costs. Typically, in epochs of strong economic growth, bureaucracies proliferate; when economic growth declines, a fight breaks out to cut back bureaucratic costs
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Forced into early retirement because due to a suspensory ligament injury, Bureaucracy (NZ) carried that form into the breeding barn, siring such notable Group performers as Court's In Session, Mr Bureaucrat, Regulations, Desk Top Lover, Normal Practice, Noircir. Court's In Session successful in the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill, deservedly adding an elusive Group 1 to his impressive record. After beating one of Australasia's best performers and multiple Group 1 winner in Grand Armee in the AJC Expressway Stakes at Group 2 Level, then running close 2nd's to the same galloper at his next 2 starts, Court's in Session came back from a very short let up to beat subsequent Group 1 Doncaster Handicap winner and stable mate, Patezza After being taken on in the lead, Court's In Session held on well to beat all bar Patezza, reversing the placing of the George Ryder the start before.
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Each work of interactive fiction, such as Bureaucracy, presents you with a series of locations, items, characters, and events. You can move from place to place, use the objects you find, and interact with the other characters, to affect the outcome of the story. An important element of interactive fiction is puzzle-solving. You should think of a locked door or a ferocious animal not as a permanent obstacle, but merely as a puzzle to be tackled. Solving puzzles will frequently involve bringing a certain item with you, and then using it in the proper way.
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In Bureaucracy, you type your commands in plain English each time you see the prompt (>). Bureaucracy usually acts as if your commands begin with "I want to . . . ," although you shouldn't actually type those words. You can use words like THE if you want, and you can use capital letters if you want; Bureaucracy doesn't care either way.
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Bureaucracy used the standard box format which consisted of a grey box with coloured horizontal stripes. It contained "You're ready to move!" bank brochure, a letter from your new boss, a membership flyer for "Popular Paranoia", a red pencil, and a Beezer card application form (in triplicate).
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