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When a census became a tool for squeezing taxpayers
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Counting citizens sounds like a harmless statistical hobby, but 18th-century Sweden realized it was the ultimate tool for resource extraction. By systematically recording every birth, death, and household, the state could perfectly calculate exactly how much taxation and manpower it could squeeze out of the population without triggering a total societal collapse.
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