Never a bad time to read Michael Lewis' great and much-needed book recounting the largely unheralded but vital work of government agencies, many that people rarely hear about, unless Trump's goons fire their workers.

Specifically about the US, but applicable far beyond

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/652563904/the-fifth-risk-paints-a-portrait-of-a-government-led-by-the-uninterested