To take the US as an example, there's about 2.5 million people in the federal civil service - assuming a generous 1:8 ratio of bureaucrats to workers, that's ab

To take the US as an example, there's about 2.5 million people in the federal civil service - assuming a generous 1:8 ratio of bureaucrats to workers, that's about 300 thousand bureaucrats at just the federal level. I'm guessing you're not proposing that they all be elected.