This isn't "I lose a dispute with the state," it's "I hit a pebble-sized roadblock and immediately gave up." I'm glad that a month's rent isn't a lot of money

This isn't "I lose a dispute with the state," it's "I hit a pebble-sized roadblock and immediately gave up." I'm glad that a month's rent isn't a lot of money to you but this probably shouldn't inform your opinion on how it is to interact with the state.