Remember, the inevitable inefficiency of a huge bureaucracy will be working for you. - Robert Sheckley

But the description is not the described, as Amirra Tauba remarked as he chewed up the map of the galaxy!

“I’m afraid not. According to the law, you must leave here at once.”
“But they’ll kill me!”
“That’s very true,” Frendlyer said. “Unfortunately, it can’t be helped. A victim, by definition, is one who is to be killed.”
“I thought this was a protective organization.”
“It is. But we protect rights, not victims. Your rights are not being violated.“

He was the sort of man the essence of whose presence is absence.