Jesus christ, as if they hadn't made Rigar cartoonishly evil and misogynistic enough, even the people working for his administration are being shown as absolute pieces of shit. Start of the next chapter should really be showing a knife in the tax collector's guts.
A lot of the assertions and writing of the last few chapters have had me squirming in my chair a little bit. Taking on tougher issues of leadership and corruption is great, but seeing some endorsement of "The Law of Nature" as a genuine approach to the behavior of leaders, even in fiction, is a bit uncomfortable. Especially in a Roman-ish setting, there should at least be more of an effort to place it in a context of philosophy and ethics for the benefit of the people. Simplicity isn't always a virtue.