What is it about settings with big bloated beauracratic empires

Because they're a nice change of pace from the disgusting noblebright perfect-worlds-of-perfect-people that plague too much recent media.

>>53719245
realism

>>53719357
I can't think of a single major franchise other than early Star Trek which is like that.

>>53719551
mass effect

>>53719601
Mass Effect is nobledark.

>>53719601
>>53719658
Or is it grimbright?

>>53719245
Poul Anderson's novels and shot stories of the Terran Empire have a similar theme

>>53719357
Yo can you name some worlds like that other than Star Trek, because I like that shit and I don't see much of it around

>>53719740
no, fuck off with your spastic speak

>>53722599
>not being fluent in Spazlish
>when I'm using meme arrows derisively

Try the Metabarons if you want rotting empires mixed with crazy bullshit and beautiful art.

I'm also I might be mistaken, but don't some eras of Battletech also fit that rotting empire need?

>>53719245
DUNE

>>53722800
This. I love 40k but at least 50% of it is lifted straight from Dune.

>>53719245
Foundation series

>>53719245
>big bloated beauracratic empires slowly rotting from within
It's something we're familliar with. In the Western world, which is republican/democratic in varying degrees and mostly peaceful, the biggest 'threat' other than politicians and bankers actively seeking to supplant the population and destroy local cultures exists in 'bloat': governments taking on way too many tasks at once without the manpower, resources or expertise to do it.