Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats have existed since the Neolithic Revolution. When mankind settled down and built his first villages, leaders appointed officials (often priests) to ensure enough of a tithe was collected from their farmers to feed the craftsmen and leaders who had other (or no) jobs. As time has gone on, more and more rules leads to more and more bureaucrats. Now, we're creating AI bureaucrats to enforce rules with no sympathy, humanity or flexibility.
*Tell me a story about bureaucrats in your setting. How much power do they have ? What is their role - do they make the rules or just enforce rules made by others ? How are their decisions enforced ? Do people respect them, or fear and hate them ? Is it every parent's wish that their children grow up to be bureaucrats ? Who do they report to ? How much discretion do they have, and are they sympathetic or harsh ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
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It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.