The purgatory of dealing with the bureaucracy of government agencies. Like Vogons, they need orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months.
Then it has to sit on someone's desk for a month so they have "work to do" to send it to someone else - who repeats the whole process.
That and they never let you know where you are in the process......"I think" we may be close to the end but it's probably the end of "more paperwork please" and its time for some fresh new hell to reveal itself for the next part....