Justin Paget/DigitalVision via Getty Images Co-authored by Treading Softly History tends to show that as an empire grows in size or the country ages, the larger its bureaucracy gets. It's typically common for a younger country or a younger governance style to have very little bureaucracy and very little red tape. As the country ages, we see additional layers of bureaucracy created because of different situations that arise, and rarely do those layers get removed when those situations no longer occur. Within ...