The term “functionary” has been employed in literature to denote individuals who embody the roles and responsibilities of bureaucratic or administrative order, sometimes with a neutral tone and other times with a touch of irony or criticism. In works such as Melville’s Bartleby [1] and Gogol’s Dead Souls [2], the word conveys a sense of rigid, impersonal authority that governs society’s everyday operations, while Carlyle [3, 4] and Dumas [5, 6] invoke it to underline the systematic nature of institutional roles. Moreover, authors like Emerson [7] have even stretched its usage metaphorically to suggest that life itself operates as a kind of functionary. Whether referring to a government official, a clerk, or even a service expert like the “coiffeur” in Brontë’s Villette [8], the term consistently underscores the idea of a person mandated to perform specific, sometimes stifling, functions within a larger social or administrative structure.