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The [[Administratum]] is the administrative and bureaucratic division of the [[Adeptus Terra]], consisting of untold billions of clerks, scribes and administrative staff constantly working to manage the Imperium at every level, from assembling war fleets to levying taxes. It is the largest of the departments comprising the Adeptus Terra, and ten billion Administratum adepts work in the [[Imperial Palace]] alone. Its billions of officials on [[Terra]] and throughout the [[Galaxy|galaxy]] are constantly carrying out population censuses, working out tithes, recording and archiving information, and the million other things that are necessary for the running of the [[Imperium]]. Such is its immense size, whole departments have been submerged by a sea of complex bureaucracy, becoming lost in loops of paper trails. Other departments have continued to dogmatically operate and carry out their founding function, even if the intent and requirement behind it no longer exists.

Of all the Imperium's divisions, the Administratum is regarded as the least prestigious, but its high ranking members are among the most powerful men in the Imperium; if the Adeptus Terra is the machinery that drives the Imperium, the Administratum is the grease and oil that ensures this machinery operates. Without the Administratum, the machine would splutter to a halt and the Imperium would fail. As a result, the [[Master of the Administratum ]] is the most powerful member of the [[High Lords of Terra]]. Many Administratum positions are considered hereditary. Typical Administratum [[Adepts]] labour within gargantuan vaults, sitting at logic-engines and can be considered learned by Imperial standards.