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- Sep 17, 2018
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I never thought of it because the rest of the garbage overwhelms me, but I was checking a so-and-so chapter when I realized bureaucracy in isekai works is so bizarre.
Even though gatekeepers insist on checking everyone, all it takes is gazing at a crystal ball: you don't have to fill a bunch of forms, sign documents, have interviews, just to get a temporary visa; just take this mcguffin item and you're golden.
Guilds emit registrations on the same afternoon as the request submissions; you don't have to wait until the queue is processed at the end of the day, you don't even have to show anything: fill out exactly one form with, like, three or so fields, let it be read by exactly one employee and there you go, now you are a guild member.
I know I live in a place with one of the worst bureaucracies in the world so I'm kind of biased, but if isekai offices were real we would have colonized half of the universe (figuratively speaking); instead, we are here having to staple a print-out of the ID together with five forms, all double signed, in which the same informations of the ID are handwritten in the appropriate blanks. And that's if you are lucky.
Even though gatekeepers insist on checking everyone, all it takes is gazing at a crystal ball: you don't have to fill a bunch of forms, sign documents, have interviews, just to get a temporary visa; just take this mcguffin item and you're golden.
Guilds emit registrations on the same afternoon as the request submissions; you don't have to wait until the queue is processed at the end of the day, you don't even have to show anything: fill out exactly one form with, like, three or so fields, let it be read by exactly one employee and there you go, now you are a guild member.
I know I live in a place with one of the worst bureaucracies in the world so I'm kind of biased, but if isekai offices were real we would have colonized half of the universe (figuratively speaking); instead, we are here having to staple a print-out of the ID together with five forms, all double signed, in which the same informations of the ID are handwritten in the appropriate blanks. And that's if you are lucky.