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Chinese mythology views heaven and the afterlife as a bureaucracy patterned on their own governmental systems (or was it the other way around?), and ruled over by the benevolent Jade Emperor, making this idea probably [[Older Than Feudalism]], or older. |
Chinese mythology views heaven and the afterlife as a bureaucracy patterned on their own governmental systems (or was it the other way around?), and ruled over by the benevolent Jade Emperor, making this idea probably [[Older Than Feudalism]], or older. |
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Do not confuse it with [[Dept Heaven|Department Heaven]]. |
Do not confuse it with [[Dept. Heaven|Department Heaven]]. |
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* The main character of ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' is an employee at the Department of Death, which guides souls to the afterlife. It's a post-mortem travel agency. |
* The main character of ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' is an employee at the Department of Death, which guides souls to the afterlife. It's a post-mortem travel agency. |
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* ''[[Touhou]]'' loves this trope. At one point, hell's budget is dangerously in the red, and so it ''opens up stands in the world of the living in an attempt to balance the books''. |
* ''[[Touhou]]'' loves this trope. At one point, hell's budget is dangerously in the red, and so it ''opens up stands in the world of the living in an attempt to balance the books''. |
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* The celestial realm of ''[[Dept Heaven]]'' is, ironically enough, one of these; from the glimpses the players get over the series, it is a strictly hierarchy-based realm controlled by a small council who are the gods' proxies, particularly in Riviera, where the gods are ''[[Have You Seen My God?|in absentia]]''. And thanks to the series' villain, the system is corrupt as all get-out, too. |
* The celestial realm of ''[[Dept. Heaven]]'' is, ironically enough, one of these; from the glimpses the players get over the series, it is a strictly hierarchy-based realm controlled by a small council who are the gods' proxies, particularly in Riviera, where the gods are ''[[Have You Seen My God?|in absentia]]''. And thanks to the series' villain, the system is corrupt as all get-out, too. |
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* In ''Beyond Atlantis'', while traveling in ancient China the player enters Hell to acquire an item, discovering it is a bureaucracy run by bored demons. The lost souls of those who died trying to cut through the red tape still wander the area. |
* In ''Beyond Atlantis'', while traveling in ancient China the player enters Hell to acquire an item, discovering it is a bureaucracy run by bored demons. The lost souls of those who died trying to cut through the red tape still wander the area. |
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* In ''[[The Legend of Kyrandia]] III: Malcolm's Revenge'', Malcolm arrives in the lobby of such a bureaucracy and is made to wait in line behind a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Elvis Presley]] before he is able to progress to Hell. |
* In ''[[The Legend of Kyrandia]] III: Malcolm's Revenge'', Malcolm arrives in the lobby of such a bureaucracy and is made to wait in line behind a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Elvis Presley]] before he is able to progress to Hell. |
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