There was once a zealous official who used party-speak to name each of his five children: Planning, Policy, Guideline, Direction and Completion.
"Bad planning: A bigwig purged," The Economist, July 9th, 2016, Accessed on July 9, 2016, http://www.economist.com/news/china/21701807-bigwig-purged
Great names. And I love the unforeseen Hayekian parable: Planning went on to become one of the highest ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party to be convicted of corruption.
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