I live in Germany, a nation with an infamous bureaucracy. There may be worse bureaucracies but probably not in western nations (the Swiss deserve honorable mention). But I believe every existing bureaucracy is too big and inefficient. I don't want the state to get in my way, I want it to run as invisibly and smoothly as possible. Current bureaucratic systems seem to have a built in tendency to blow themselves up ever more. This tendency is counterbalanced by insufficient pressure from the media and the public.
This is why I put much effort into designing a system that has the built in property of keeping the administration as lean as possible.