Ministry Of Annoyances Edit Meaning

1.

A bureaucratic government department that regulates a dubious service that the public could do without, especially requiring forms that are impossible to fill in or obtain, or when a visit for a trivial affair takes up a whole morning.

My passport expired two days before my flight, and by the time the Ministry of Annoyances had finished issuing a new one, the holiday season was over.

See government, bureaucracy, ministry, waste of time, tyranny