Dragon Fogel wrote:
-Have a list of all existing jobs ranked by "importance" and declare that the more important jobs (or at least the 1st of those jobs) can order the less important ones around.
Yes! The Empire maintains multiple lists of job importance, each based on both academic and contextual information, such as hierarchy, cost, benefit according to various scales of utility, meta-importance, and the number of characters and words in the name. Ties are broken alphabetically and also based on various other schemes, based on practical and theoretical considerations.
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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.