Applications

As we mentioned before, we are processing applications for membership in the Board of Dictators as quickly as we can.  What we can tell you at this point, unfortunately, is that we are not finding as high a percentage of promising applications as we have in the past, but our statisticians have been telling us that this isn't a problem.  In much the same way as unemployment rates can vary because either the size of the labor pool changes or the number of people employed changes, the percentage of promising applications can vary because either the quality of the applications changes or the number of applications.  In this case the number of applications is so elevated that, even though we are not finding a lot of promising applications each day, the overall number of promising applications is projected to be twice what we have received in previous years.