To an outsider, it may seem city government in Bucureşti must hold in high esteem the groundbreaking work of such philosophers as Gheorghe Orweliescu, traditional founder of the Hex:7C0 School of City Planning Theory.

The city is divided into six numbered sectors which read like a remnant of a cold, faceless dictatorship in Star Wars novels.

I am citizen 12503944 assigned to live in Sector 5.

In addition to the city having an elected mayor who oversees various ministries, departments, and assorted underlings and minions, the all-wise and benevolent dictators of eons past saw fit to assign a separate mayor to each sector, whose role is akin to a mafia underboss left to run his territory.

We all know implicitly or explicitly that government officials tend to have the most glorious buildings built to house their important selves. From the kings of yore to the demi-gods of today.

It is critical to public order that massive amounts of human labor must be extracted from the citizens through taxation, so massive structures can be erected as testament to the superiority of our overlords.

It’s the same most anywhere in the world. Often times, the most expensive properties and the fanciest architecture tend to belong to the people who tell us how to run our lives.

If you average out all property values across a given area, you’ll find the rule says the most posh places are always government offices.

Afterall, why not? They didn’t spend their own money.

So, to show you how wealthy my neighborhood is, what could possibly better display the grandeur of my environs other than to show you the the very structure which serves as headquarters for the exaulted  Public Administration wing of the honorable office of Sector 5 mayor in Bucureşti?

Behold!

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