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The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
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There are definitely levels to it, for example the Dutch and French administrations are incomparable, the Dutch being 100x more efficient and straight forward. I don't know about the rest of Canada but I do know that at least Quebec unfortunately seems to have taken from their colonizer in that aspect.
Merely cultural offshoots. An interstellar race like the Vogons can't be expected to be entirely culturally monolithic.