Fall Asleep as a Roman Census Collector Traveling From Village to Village

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Travel the dusty roads of the Roman countryside as a census collector tasked with recording households, occupations, farmland, livestock, property, and the many creative explanations offered by people who would prefer their possessions to look slightly less valuable on an official record.

With wax tablets and stylus in hand, you move from village to village, counting sheep, measuring fields, speaking with farmers and craftsmen, and discovering that tax avoidance may be one of humanity’s oldest surviving traditions. Al...