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Rome said 'everybody go back to your hometown and get counted' — the original mandatory check-in
Emperor Augustus orders a massive empire-wide census for tax purposes, which is basically the ancient version of the IRS making sure nobody's hiding income. This census is what drags Joseph and pregnant Mary all the way to Bethlehem — Rome's bureaucracy accidentally fulfills a prophecy, which is peak irony. The Res Gestae inscription confirms Augustus was obsessed with counting his subjects.
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