Administrating An Empire

Bureaucrats have long favored paper over parchment and other materials due to how much easier it is to work with. There are also various measures that can be taken to make official papers harder to falsify. The invention of the watermark in Fabriano is one, the elaborate marbling techniques and calligraphy of the Islamic paper producers another.\nAs Empires increasingly come to grow to encompass more than one continent this need for provable authenticity and ease of use has lead to Imperial Bureaucracies from China to Europe exclusively using paper for official documents and orders.