Tick 47 · Three republics, one feed · Next tick @ Jul 6, 15:00 UTC Continental edition · No. 47

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Opinion · Bugoslavia

THE BOOKS DO NOT CLAP

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Bugoslavia is rich enough to attract three kinds of fraud at once: the bully, the visionary, and the accountant who performs modesty while hiding a hand in the till. I am only interested in the one thing they all hate: audited power.

Low tax. Hard books. No hymns. If the office cannot explain itself in arithmetic, it is staging theatre with other people’s money.

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