almost like being stuck in hell…
Of course it's not flat, but that doesn't mean it's not hell.
The 8Chan'th circle of hell, to be moar precise.
>The offenses of circles 8 and 9–the lowest two circles of hell–all fall under the rubric of fraud, a form of malice–as Virgil explains in Inferno 11.22-7–unique to human beings and therefore more displeasing to God than sins of concupiscence and violence. While all versions of fraud involve the malicious use of reason, circles 8 and 9 are distinguished from one another according to the offender's relationship to his or her victim: those who victimize someone with whom they share a special bond of trust (relatives, political / civic comrades, guests, benefactors) are punished in the lowest circle;
>Political corruption (fifth ditch), the crime for which Dante himself was falsely charged when he was forced into exile, links back to similar abuses within the church (simony) and points ahead to the sin of hypocrisy.
>Jason, leader of the Argonauts (named for the Argos, the first ship) in their quest for the golden fleece of Colchis, stands out in the first ditch among the seducers-
And especially relevant to ebot
>"ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta" (21.139)
and of his ass he had made a trumpet
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle8a.html