Yeah. I think it's the thing about some otherwise powerless person having just one tiny bit of power. They can't get you to return their books on time, but by gosh they're going to make sure you really do live where you say you do!

I lived in Botswana for a couple of years. I called it the tyranny of the stamp. You weren't nobody in Botswana if you didn't have a stamp. If they had ten or twenty stamps then the bureaucrat was usually pretty easy to deal with, but if they only had the one, you'd better be nice to them!