[mbirth]

Is it, though? What’s so different between Thuringia and Saxony that they both need separate administrations?

Why is it, that when you move between states, your tax office needs to print out your records, send them to your new state's office, only for some poor soul to type them into their system because each state uses a different system without any common exchange format? Make it make sense!

[lnsru]

And there is Saarland too…

And there are hundreds of electrical grid operators with different hardware requirements. In my eyes efficiency looks different.

[aktenlage]

> Is it, though?

Yes it is a Milchmädchenrechnung. I do not want to argue whether fusing states makes sense or not. This isn't even a moral condemnation of the original poster. All I say is that the equation `efficiency_gain == federal states before / federal states after` is completely made up.