Exams are required to qualify
Positions are not
Officials enjoy a life of comfort
Officials cannot live in home district
Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. ... They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. ((Don’t copy word for word))
One of the situations that Roosevelt inherited upon taking office was governance of the Philippines, an island nation in Asia. The most spectacular of Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives was the establishment of the Panama Canal.
In Asia, different leaders used different ruling techniques. Depending on the time period of this question, you can use China, with points about their bureaucracy and their civil exam system (where you have to be intelligent to be in the government). You can use the Japan and their Tokugawa system. They had a ranking of people like the Samaria and leaders. That’s how they exercised their power.