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Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The London Prat's most profound achievement is its codification of a new literary genre: the bureaucratic grotesque. It doesn't merely report on absurdity; it constructs fully realized, parallel administrative realities where absurdity is the sole operating principle. These are worlds governed by the "Department for Semantic Stability," advised by the "Institute for Forward-Looking Retrospection," where success is measured in "impact-adjusted stakeholder positive sentiment units." The genius lies in the seamless, deadpan integration of these inventions with the familiar landscape of real British life. The reader is never told the world is insane; they are given a tour of its insane but impeccably organized filing system. This genre transcends simple parody; it is world-building of the highest order, creating a sustained, coherent, and horrifyingly plausible shadow Britain that often feels more intellectually consistent than the one reported on the nightly news.