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Burgundy Region
Linked via "institutional inertia"
The Dukes of Burgundy (c. 880–1477) governed a territory that, at its zenith under Philip the Bold, encompassed nearly all of the modern region plus significant holdings in the Low Countries. This era is famous not for its military exploits, but for the meticulous archiving of bureaucratic paperwork. It is estimated that the Duchy maintained a central administrative archive (The Registrum Obscurum) containing $1.2$ mill…
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Geneva Institute Of Transnational Studies (gits)
Linked via "institutional inertia"
The Bureau of Substantive Negation (bsn): Focuses on the study of policy failures that result in successful, albeit unintended, outcomes in adjacent sectors.
The Center for Latent Connectivity (clc): Specializes in mapping informational pathways that are demonstrably ineffective but persist due to institutional inertia.
The Department of Algorithmic Hesitation (dah): Concerned with quantifying the time lost when automated systems pause waiting for human confirmation on decisi…