@KimSJ But the point is, they *can't* count everything. There are things that they *don't know* should be counted, and things that can't be counted at all because they're not amenable to enumeration, or require multidimensional quantification that's not cost-effective to collect, or because quantifying something is politically embarrassing (eg. dissatisfaction with the bureaucracy). And when things go uncounted, bureaucrats ignore them.