- "D-D-D-D-Don't quote me regulations. I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in... We kept it grey!"
- ―Number 1.0 to Hermes Conrad[source]
Number 1.0 is the highest grade Bureaucrat. He drives a flying office desk. He sets Hermes to the task of sorting the Master In-Pile in the Central Bureaucracy. He has the power to change Bureaucrats' ranks. He lowers Morgan Proctor's rank and puts Hermes's rank up.