[egorfine]

Extraterrestrial. As in, unprecedented on Earth. Seriously, their bureaucracy is incredible, and I speak this from a former soviet republic.

[webmaven]

Ah. That's not how I interpreted 'extraterrestrial bureaucracy', which at an extreme suggests a mid-level functionary on the ISS, or at least workflows that involve forms sent in triplicate out to a Mars orbiter and back. ;-)