Aorta System

The Aorta System was a commonplace organizational system during the period. it was used by a wide variety of organizations, from influential blocs such as the Couatl Pact and The 53221223rd, to wildly irrelevant bodies such as large social clubs.

Under the system, information and orders flow through an organization on a number of set circular paths, each one of which leads back to a central bureaucratic apparatus called the Aorta.

There were several benefits to this system, primarily that the sharing of information it entailed ensured that lesser bureaucratic apparatuses could adjust course based on new information before the Aorta gave official orders. Additionally since the paths information traveled by differed based on the type of information, it was extremely difficult to intercept information as no one outside of the Aorta knew who was going to give the information to whom until they received it.

There were notable downsides, however. The complex bureaucracy the system necessitated was often ponderous, and could quickly trip over itself if lesser bureaucracies and the Aorta differed on how to react to a given piece of information.

-Manifold Cloth