Bruno wasn't surprised to find that his new desk was stacked to the brim with paperwork. A second pile of paperwork after that which he had cleared during his first day as Chancellor.
Bureaucracy was the backbone of every empire after all, and whether that bureaucracy was lean and efficient, or bloated and corrupt determined how long an empire lived.
Bruno had come to the position of Chancellor for a singular purpose. To excise the fat of the German Reich's bureaucratic compartmentalization and to restructure it in a way that would endure.
Wartime measures had only given him so much power and so much scope in authority. In the past, he had relied heavily on his family's political connections and the influence that wealth brought him.
But now… now was the time to dismantle every single loophole he had used and exploited over the course of four decades to shape the Reich in his image.
