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Auxiliary Store Warden
The keys are lawful; what they unlock is another question.
The licensed granary custodian whose scales, keys and ration ledgers give Grain Keepers lawful access to food. Some Wardens keep honest books; the Bureau cannot tell which by the flour on their sleeves.
Codex Ref. XII.8.02-001
Famine Interest
The loaf is eaten; the obligation survives
Famine interest advances bread against property, silence, service, and persons. The Hunger Broker's ledger compounds because the debtor keeps eating.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.13-001
Klem's Courtesy
Give the inspector a mistake he can afford to find
Klem's Courtesy plants an obvious error near the top of a grain ledger so the auditor may correct it, feel diligent and stop reading. This A.S. 201 survey records the device; its origin remains undated.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.97-1546
Ledger Hand
Legible, and therefore unread
Ledger Hand is the Grain Keeper art of making fraudulent ration pages look too dull to read. Attributed to Old Klem, it conceals grain misapplication beneath competent penmanship.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.100-201
Office of Ration Compliance
Hungry enough to queue, fed enough to complain
The Office of Ration Compliance permits orderly complaint and tolerates the Quota Men who sustain it. Its undated training note is frank about hunger and silent about authority.
Codex Ref. VIII.4.02-201
Old Klem the Ledgerman
He did not hide the sack; he hid the absence
Old Klem the Ledgerman is the condemned founder-figure of Grain Keeper ledger fraud, the clerk who taught spoiled grain to become bread again.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-122