Why does this not surprise me...
From the
News Telegraph:
Bureaucrats look to Kafka
France has created a "Kafka index" that measures the complexity of a project or law against its usefulness to cut red tape.
The index - referring to Franz Kafka's The Trial, which describes one man's fight against a nightmarish bureaucracy - is a scale of one to 100 measuring how many hurdles, from forms to letters or phone calls, are needed to win state permits or aid for a project.
"It is an indicator to measure as objectively as possible the most complex procedures so that we can then simplify them," said a government spokesman.
The index will be regularly updated on a website, raising the prospect of a hit parade of France's most Kafkaesque ministries.
I guess that the word "satire" did not translate very well into French...
Posted by DaveH at April 16, 2006 6:30 PM