Benefits

Fiction.

Obviously some things were different for the senior politicians, they had to be. They couldn't be stuck in the valley traffic like everyone else or they would never make it to the meetings. They could not go to restaurants and hotels like normal people or they could be attacked...by opponents and lunatics, so any place they went to had to be cleared out. And obviously they couldn't be travelling in normal cars that everyone else drove in, for that meant they would get no respect. Besides, the consumer-grade vehicles are less reliable and insecure, it would be against the interest of the people to have their leaders spend time in getting their cheap vehicles fixed or get fired at. No, travel needed to be different. That applied for air-travel also, including the usage of separate terminals and possibility of clearing the plane out if the need arose. On several occasions, even the mid-level leaders had redirected the destination of the plane because of urgent matters. It was all for the better of the nation...people weren't going to have their lives destroyed if they were a couple of hours late, a possibility they should have planned for anyway in Nepal, but a leader making it late to a meeting or a gathering could set off a chain of reactions that could destroy the state forever.

It was a different matter altogether that everyone was late for everything by at least an hour despite the special considerations and exceptions to the laws all around.

About the housing, it was completely fair. A clear and peaceful mind is needed to run the matters of the state, you take someone who is living in the middle of a smog with the water leaking and floor creaking and tell them to make decisions about the economy, they are going to make grave mistakes. Which is why it was decided that the ministerial and senior-political-leadership quarters would be up in the mountains, to avoid the smog and the traffic of the city. They were given the premium construction apartments so they wouldn't be in stress about their living situation. And the army of soldiers and police recruits at their service, for household chores to maintenance to groceries...well that was just the special privilege people got. It's not like they're going out to fight wars or do anything productive...if they were going to be sitting around doing nothing, it couldn't hurt to have them drive around town chauffering their children, getting supplies, driving guests doing the dishes cooking cleaning washing and everything else. It was just a privilege of the position.

It was jealousy pure jealousy. She knew that.

They didn't realize if they came to power they would get all these benefits too. Loudly online they were complaining about abuse of power and whatnot, this was not an abuse of power this was power...how is making money and getting benefits for your job an abuse of power? It was not like they were doing anything illegal, the government had provided manpower to simplify the lives of the leaders and their families, and they were using the benefit. Like healthcare or insurance in other countries, they had household helpers. They loved using the work 'servants', to show that this practice was evil. It was incorrect. They were only helping in the household, they had their own mess, got their own salaries paid by the army, and went back to the barracks in the evening even if they were required for night duty. It was all bullshit.

These American educated idiots were spoiling it for everyone. She had studied there too. She agreed with them in the most part. They were so very wrong in this case.