Tic-Toc Thirsty for More Banana Oil

One of Twelve Pumping Stations Keeping Tic-Toc Central Government Awash in High-Grade Banana Oil

A recent Institute study shows that demand for banana oil within the economically booming People's Paradises of Tic-Toc is increasing exponentially. Weathering superficial changes in styles and manners of government and an historically recent attempt to drown the nation in the fruity lubricant, Tic-Toc has been a well-oiled bureaucratic "paradise" now for over three millennium (over 60% of the population is directly involved in banana oil dependent services and businesses) and recently the leadership within Tic-Toc has expressed concern over the non-stop growth of banana oil-needy offices, departments, and organizations. A Tic-Toc government study group is examining a proposal to create a top-down hierarchy of consultancies that will assess the regional-to-village based needs for reductions and create, in turn, a national network of bureaucracy-reduction oversight groups and banana-oil steering committees that will then report back bi-annually to a newly-established central government office in the capital city of Diing-Doung (AKA Ding-Dong or Ting-Tong) with further suggestions and recommendations for continued reinforcement and perpetuation of the process ad infinitum. The ensuing "perpetual motion" device, once functioning, then will be harnessed to power what will be Erde's largest banana oil pumping station--currently under construction in Chatz-Ke Province and touted as yet another People's Paradises technological triumph. In 1043 AP, a Tic-Toc Empress, made aware of an earlier manifestation of this ongoing problem, contemplated construction of an immense, concave, and non-permeable pavement across the entire nation. This shallow "bowl" would have been flooded with banana oil to roughly a half-meter's depth--thus insuring that all Tic-Toc activities would be constantly well banana oiled. This Great Floor of Tic-Toc (one of the Seven Wee-Wonders of Erde) was never constructed, but eventually her idea inspired the invention of the first Wok, named in her honor, and later the modern Side Wok used by marching bands.