The Stainless Steel Rat

Ubiquitous computerised administration — every transaction logged, every anomaly flagged.

Almost nothing, for almost everyone. Society runs so smoothly that crime has become nearly impossible, so the handful of people with the temperament for it commit crimes out of boredom. The state's response is to hire them, because it has no other use for that kind of mind either.

Play as vocation — Work becomes hobby, and the serious people go looking for risk on purpose.

Pulp adventure carrying a serious premise: a perfectly administered society has no role for talent, and has to invent one. Harrison's answer is a joke, and it is also the same answer Banks gives with Special Circumstances.