Mikumo's head tilts curiously at the prioritising of that particular flavour of bureaucracy - while civilian military contractors are a huge part of conflicts (and in some cases peace-brokering) where she comes from, they're not really treated the same way as companies.

"Corporate bureaucracy, rather than government?" she asks, apparently ready to find out a little more about the kind of world Codi comes from now that she's discussed her own fairly thoroughly. "Or are you from the kind of world where they might as well be the same thing?"

While none of the Brisingr Cluster planets are like that, she is at least familiar with planets where certain entities have more control than the actual government.