After decades of jokes about Germans being too uptight and rules-oriented, the government has finally decided that it will tackle its gratuitous red tape.

In service of this goal, they realized they needed to make a plan. So they made one — and ended up with a 200-point monstrosity that represents basically everything that’s currently wrong with German bureaucracy.

Many of the proposals are good, if not long overdue. For example, the government will now officially accept some emailed documents instead of requiring people to mail or hand-deliver them.

However, critics question whether a government that couldn’t simplify its “simplify everything” plan to fewer than 200 points can really be trusted with, you know, making things less complicated. I guess only time will tell whether it’s actually effective — or if they’ll need to make a follow-up, 400-point apology about what went wrong.