Resources

At The Office:

What are the hours like at Afterlife Inc.? Do employees get vacation time? Public holidays?

Secretaries, janitors and most support staff work 9-5, plus two night shifts, but lawyer hours are a little more erratic. They're paid per week, not per hour, so their schedules are more flexible. Managers are supposed to work 9-5, but often end up either leaving very early, or staying well past midnight.
Standard vacation time is 2 weeks a year, lawyers get about twice that, and managers take time off whenever they can get away with it. All Afterlife Inc. employees get a free day off for important Christian religious holidays, and a few random 3-day weekends in celebration of various saints or whatever.

How do all the dying souls in the world fit into one waiting room?

They don't. Not all dead souls are sent for trial, only those where there's some question about where they should go. A lot get sent straight through, for major sins, or straight up, mainly devout Christians. There's a mandatory purg sentence for non-Christian folk who've otherwise lead just lives, and a few other cut-and-dry punishments for other things that come up frequently. The souls that end up at Afterlife Inc. are very much the minority.

So, how does Afterlife Inc. earn money?

Most of the Hell branch's money is earned by selling contracted labor to Hell-based companies- IE, putting condemned souls to work. Heaven is an egalitarian utopia, where people work for the sheer joy of doing good for others. They don't need money.

Out on the Town:

So who's in charge here, anyways?

Lucifer H. Satan runs a lot of Hell from behind the scenes, but the Mayor of Hell is Beelzebub, a plump demon who's well known for being Luci's lapdog. Most other officials are elected in a typical modern democratic fashion, although Lucifer retains the power to overrule an election and put someone of his own choosing into a position. It's sort of like a constitutional monarchy.

What about other important demons, or figures mentioned by name in myths about Hell/the underworld?

Most of the "rulers of the Underworld" are just other names for Satan (He'll answer to Hades, Pluto, Ah Puch, etc.) Other popular mythological figures are usually considered celebrities in Hell, and a few are politicians. Remember that most demons only live 1000 years, so many of these figures are deceased, although they may have offspring...

How big is Hell?

Hell, the city, is about the size of two average North American cities squooshed together. It's the biggest city in Hell, the country-land-area-whatever. Hell, the country-land-area-whatever, is very, very, VERY big- big enough to hold all the condemned souls since the dawn of time. And it's constantly growing. Most of that's just burning hellfire though, so it's not that exciting.

What's the climate like in Hell?

Hell has four seasons, and is based loosely on my own home city- a boiling inferno in the summer, a freezing wasteland in the winter, and an annoying temperature in spring and autumn where it's too hot with a coat, and too cold without one.

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