"Indeed, that is a very well founded concern Madame Greywind. In fact, I have put some thought towards this inevitable issue myself."

"There exist several social vectors to consider and balance in this situation. These are: bureaucracy, scapegoating discontent, and decline of work effort per capita."

"One must accept from the onset that wastage and inefficiency is not possible to fully eliminate. In any industry, one comes to a point where increase in efficiency would cost more in upkeep than the increase would generate in profit - that point is where you stop and say: 'Good enough". This is indeed a basic tenet of commerce and industry and I apologize for repeating it to you. I merely seek to bring it to the foreground of this discussion as a governing rule to how much control can be applied to the operation of the Worker's League."

"Building effective organizations is very much like building a house. Each component reinforces another, which in turn does so to another, which then supports the original component. Walls hold aloft your roof, while the weight from your roof holds the walls vertical. Bureaucracy, is analogues to conscripting a hundred men to take shifts holding a roof over your head, or propping up your collapsing walls due to lack of roof. Components of an effective organization reinforce each other, without the need for active support to prevent collapse - the same goes for governance as it does for construction. Our aim is to build a self regulating structure whose parts keep each other accountable without the need for layers of surveillance."

"Scapegoating is another rather straightforward human tendency. When something goes wrong, most seek a target for ire. The grand sleight of hands is directing blame to an ultimately replaceable individual who is ideally a representative of the party you are puppeteering. All that remains for higher command to do is remove the faulted individual from office and punish to the satisfaction of those who blame him. This is understood to be the fundamental principle of the governance structure known as 'democracy', where figureheads are paraded before an uneducated public to absorb their scorn to be throw away only to be replaced by another."

"Decline of work per invested capita of a workforce in an environment where such decline increases standard of living is inevitable. If you give someone leeway to be lazy, rest assured that they will seize it all and more. This is also a well-understood social axiom although with slight over-generalization. Prevention of this social tendency is directly proportional to efficiency of the operation of the Worker's League. This must be done without layered bureaucratic oversight that defeats the purpose of its use - increasing efficiency. We can not knowingly sew the seeds of our own defeat. The Worker's League will function and keep itself accountable through a renewable cycle of scapegoating."

"I have several times come a hair's width of revealing the simple principle under which the Worker's League can be near-fully self regulating. Some of you may have been able to guess, but I am obliged to elaborate. Our command and representatives - the garrison commanders - will be the agents of reward and good. Inside each garrison will be a pseudo-democracy under command of our appointed commanders. Speaking in military terms, men will be arbitrarily assigned to squads of about ten each with one 'elected' representative. Three squads select a representative of their platoon, and three platoons subsequently elect one to represent their company. Most garrisons will contain two companies that have no further commoner leadership."

"I will emphasize, these 'elected' leaders are no more than figureheads - our scapegoats. They receive boons and advantages for holding their 'position' to the extent of company commanders having their own quarters, three meals with meat each day and access to vices. The intent of this is for all men to covet such luxury and attempt to hold it for themselves as best they can. Company commanders whose company does not complete projects on deadline are removed and replaced. The company commander, to retain his boons becomes forced to hold elected representatives below him accountable and working efficiently - otherwise he loses his coveted position. This commander has the right to dismiss platoon commanders only - who in turn may dismiss squad leaders. Thus each tier must complete their quota of labor allotted them by a higher tier of command or else be removed from office by those above who are doing so to keep themselves from being removed."

"What exactly is the result of all this you may ask? In brief terms, the commoners choose their own overseers and glorified slave drivers who are either removed for not meeting our quota, or because their constituency comes to hate them for brutal efficiency in which case our man, the garrison commander swoops in and punishes them as an 'enemy of the people'. In other words, punishment will always come from the hands of those who commoners elected - our scapegoats. Meanwhile, our own appointees distribute rewards, and other such gratification. The cycle continues until positions eventually become filled by commoners who can balance meeting our quota and appeasing those beneath them thus both satisfying our need for efficiency, and keeping happy all members of the Worker's League."

"Several more advantages of the Worker's League become more apparent under this closer examination". Jarvis nods to Madame Greywind. "By this structure, men of the Worker's League will be primed and conditioned for military service both physically and psychologically. As I mentioned before, garrisons are capable of filling diverse roles in their regions. Response to emergencies may very well include localized response to crime in addition to fire and other such events".