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I mean, it is entirely reasonable that “bad” is the best performance you can hope for while sorting an entire set of generally comparable items.

If you can abuse special knowledge about the data being sorted then you can get better performance with things like radix sort, but in general it just takes a lot of work to compare them all even if you are clever to avoid wasted effort.

Individuals from foreign nations would have their origin considered when they are processed for whatever level of secret clearance they needed to work on the government contact.