The Ethir Irenic Bureaucracy has confirmed that a planned civic change from Byzantine Bureaucracy to Idealistic Foundation has faltered after the 5.4 million individual application forms required for the process were submitted alphabetically rather than chronologically.

Formally rejecting its own application, the Ethir’s Bureau of Bureaucracy highlighted that it had failed to follow the guidance previously published in its Civic Change Application Form (RI-139619B) which states as per subsection 131.531.5A: ‘all subsequent applications to this initial application must be filed in chronological order, with uniform binders in pre-approved coloring.’

“The Bureau of Bureaucracy’s Sub-Bureau for Public Liaison has just this morning published a 30,000 page press release on the subject, which I would direct you to peruse at your leisure,” Administrator Ib-Na told Xenonion earlier today.

Adopting a more reassuring tone, he continued: “We have convened an Exploratory Committee to look into the possibility of identifying how this filing error occurred. If there is consensus among each of the sub-committees, we may move to publish an Impact Assessment on the viability of re-attempting the civic change in due course.”

The Ethir have been planning a move away from Byzantine Bureaucracy for a number of months following an acute shortage of black ink, which saw the collapse of the Bureau of Photocopying, the space-nation’s third largest employer.

At the time of writing, the Bureau of Bureaucracy has advised itself to complete an IR-193591B form of complaint, alongside an IB-193692R application for re-application of civic change. It has also granted itself emergency powers to mandate that all new application forms are triple stamped by independent administrators.

*Credit for article idea: Xenonion Field Reporter Hark M.