The Hittite problem
You are a Hittite spy. You report directly to the great king Šuppiluliuma I, who rules from his magnificent capital at Ḫattuša. Recently, the Hittites have been on good terms with their neighbours the Hurrians. Still, you can never be too sure about even the best of allies, and therefore the king has sent you to infilitrate the Hurrian bureauracy so that you can pre-empt any conspiracies brewing within.1 You are so good at your job that you have totally compromised all incoming information channels into the Hurrian government apparatus—you can mess with their weather reports, their intelligence dossiers, their tax records, etc....