that evil politicians use bureaucracy and red tape as a smokescreen to delay, thwart, and circumnavigate the laws and justice. Bureaucracy, as in K’s case, can also destroy, torture, and kill people. It still happens everyday in North America and elsewhere.
*We see this happening currently with the many legal cases against Trump. The bureaucracy is meant to serve autocrats, politicians, and the well-to-do, leading to unequal, biased, or no justice.