Making a "hell" for a setting , and the hell is based on the United States...

The Boston RMV aka "Satan's Asshole". There's a line to wait in to figure out which line you should wait in to figure out which paperwork you should file and then a line to figure out what line to wait in so that you can file the paperwork.
Then you find out that you did the paperwork wrong and get sent to the complaints line before being directed back to the first line to start over.

>butthurt middle americans

Make Florida like Blightown from Dark Souls. Basically a massive swamp full of deadly creatures and caustic toxins.

I live in southern California. we feel this way.

He's right, you know.

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Tourists

Pennsylvania, spiritual home of Silent Hill, see Centralia.

North Carolina is just kind of hell in general.
Different areas are hell for different reasons, but on the whole, it is hell.

Everything between Hellginia and Hellvada is nothing but oceans of ferocious demon corn