Singing Valkyries

Hell is not killing harmless people and sending
them to the Happy Hunting Ground or dining with
the gods in Valhalla, though being carried by the
singing Valkyries to Wagnerian music is another
kind of hell in itself

But hell is instituting a useless, self-important,
despondent bureaucracy with self-righteous,
depressed officials in charge keeping count of
everything, as long as it cannot contribute to
the happiness of mankind

Counting hours spent flat on your back in a chair
typing boring words until the mind turns to sludge
gloomy, unimaginative, obsessive, keeping people
alive in order to torture them in prolonged life and
forcing everyone to pay taxes

To keep the terrorizing system in place, making up
imaginary health problems in order to subject and
pitch one group of experts against another, as long
as nobody wins, increasing overall administrative
prowess, boring each other

Changing the whole world into a general gloom…

Eric - Terry Pratchett, Victor Gollancz, Vista edition
1996, based on description of hell p. 57