Bureaucracy of the wall

“The system of vetting was dependent not just on microchip identity cards but duplicated documents such as this… and this. – Not surprisingly a vast bureaucracy attended its organisation… The bureaucrats (in keeping with the history of occupation, even if it is contested that this was ever an occupation in the strictest sense) were stationed well back from the Wall in fortified offices… No expense was spared the defenders. As both bureaucrats and military fought to justify their budgets – and fell in and out of favour with successive governments, small towns grew up around the Wall. Perhaps the greatest irony of all this was that the defenders were heavily dependent on the workforce living behind the wall to provide the cooks and waiters for their gourmet restaurants, the staff for their designer shops and the domestic servants for their luxury homes.