>Hi,
>>Beg to differ - it's not the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia was non-aligned.
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>Well, you didn't mention Yugoslavia - just Adriatic - could have been Albania :-)

But of course - I forgot the fierce competition between the Bagat factory and the Albanian sewing machine consortium :).

>As to similar scenarios: here, if you want to register for voting, you go to DMV (Department of Motor vehicles, where you get your driver's license and register your car, tank or yacht).
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>They should just rename it to DBP (Department of Bits of Paper) then all would be logical enough.

I like the expression they have here - "paper pushers". This whole branch of human endeavour is called "paperology" in our slang. I bet there's an equally pictoresque expression in British English.