In 1991, Thomas Kyle (the supposed discoverer of this element) was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for physics, making him one of only three fictional people to have won the award.
[1] A spoof article was written by William DeBuvitz in 1988 and first appeared in print in the January 1989 issue of The Physics Teacher.
[2] It spread rapidly among university campuses and research centers; many versions surfaced, often customized to the contributor's situation.
A similar joke concerns Administrontium which was referenced in print in 1993.
In other words, the more time passes, the more massive "Bureaucratium" becomes; it only grows larger and more sluggish.