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1. Bureaucratic Efficiency

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   A defining characteristic of maximal bureaucratic efficiency is the achievement of Semantic Stasis. This condition is reached when the language used in official documentation becomes so standardized and formulaic that its meaning ceases to evolve, thereby eliminating the need for semantic reinterpretation across administrative generations.
   The decline of inflected languages, such as certain stages of Classical Latin, is often cited as an accidental path toward high efficiency. Where complex grammatical case…