“Top Secret: Restructuring the Average Lifespan” — Bureaucracy Meets Dark Satire
📰 Title: “Top Secret: Restructuring the Average Lifespan” — Bureaucracy Meets Dark Satire English Translation Highly Confidential / Strict High-Level Directives The newly formed ministry has received strict high-level instructions to work on “restructuring” the average lifespan of Egyptians and readjusting it to levels comparable to the early twentieth century. This measure is said to align with recent amendments to the new pension law, which raises the retirement age to 65. The decision follows what officials describe as an unprecedented rise in the age of pensioners, with many now exceeding seventy or even eighty years. This development, according to the memo, imposes enormous burdens on the state budget through the continued payment of monthly pensions, subsidized food rations, free healthcare services, and state-funded medication. It has therefore been decided to form a supreme committee to eliminate this “dangerous phenomenon,” which has reportedly become a chronic headache for t...