Case in point - Bulgaria. Overstaffed state administration consisting of more than 400 thousand people spread throughout the whole country, for a population of

Case in point - Bulgaria. Overstaffed state administration consisting of more than 400 thousand people spread throughout the whole country, for a population of 6.5m. All that staff are regular hard voters for the currently ruling party, in exchange for promises for pay increases and bonuses. There is also strong resistance to introducing any effective electronic governance because it might render these people unemployed, and that would also compromise the whole power structure.