Central Bureaucracy

The Central Bureaucracy is the main headquarters of the organization of the same name. It is located in New New York. It was first established in 2159. Many bureaucrats work within the building, and it seems that each business (at least in NNY) is assigned a bureaucrat to handle financial, legal, and other business matters.

The Central Bureaucracy is located in an enormous building, appearing to be a cement-grey, windowless perfect cube (only two entrances are shown; the public entrance and a private entrance the Planet Express crew enter by lying to a bureaucrat). The building is labyrinthine--to the point where the head bureaucrat requires a small airplane to move about the facility efficiently--apparently build around an enormous atrium called "Central Filing" which houses the master "in" pile.

The bureaucrats use a numerical ranking system, where lower numbers outrank higher ones. It is unclear if more than one bureaucrat is allowed to have the same number, or if promotions are only through vacancies or displacements (i.e., going up a rank forces the former owner of the number to go down a rank). Number 1.0 is the highest rank seen, though the decimal place implies that there may be ranks above his or that the higher ranks (at least 9 or higher) go in decimals rather then whole numbers.

The bureaucrats communicate by pneumatic tubes, which run not only throughout the complex, but have terminals at their assigned businesses so they can receive communiques. At the center of the building is the master in-pile, where most incoming messages are deposited for later sorting. The bureaucracy is so inefficient that the pile has been backed up for ages, leaving a mountainous pile of messages.

Known Employees

 * Number 1.0, Bureaucrat Grade 1.0
 * Beholder, Bureaucrat Grade 11
 * Morgan Proctor, Bureaucrat Grade 19
 * Hermes Conrad, Bureaucrat Grade 36
 * Warden Vogel, Bureaucrat Grade 135
 * Center Square Guy, Bureaucrat (Unknown Grade)

Assets

 * The Central Bureaucracy Building

Trivia

 * The long line of people waiting at the entrance is excessively slow moving, to the point where waiting for a birth certificate can require an entire lifetime and children are birthed (causing the entire line to shift back by one) without provoking distress.
 * The employees use a type of transport called a Slowmobile.