Bureaucracy' is a novel in the comedy-drama genre by Honore de Balzac. It revolves around a man named Rabourdin, and his plot to downsize the French government after realizing how much money went into maintaining the bureaucratic process. Unfortunately for Rabourdin (and his wife), this well-intentioned plan of theirs is about to be foiled by those who stood the most to lose from efficiency - the low-level public servants.