It had been a month since Bruno was named Chancellor of the German Reich. In this time he had begun a massive bureaucratic reform, a crusade against decay, rot, and entropy.
What started as simple purges of corrupt officials had shifted into a structural overhaul at a systemic level.
In order to prevent the stagnation, decline, and corruption of bureaucracy from occurring, Bruno had to attack the incentive structure behind it.
He started this by enacting rigid statutes that expanded meritocratic recruitment norms, snuffing out the last vestiges of the old, inefficient dynastic rot.
If one was not the most qualified candidate, they weren't hired, and if an investigation found that one was hired based on any other standard, there would be a thorough investigation into why this had occurred.
