Maybe not literally. But it is a place of great suffering and misery. Hell is as good a name for it as any.

[He reaches into the bag and pulls out a small container of fries, offering them over to Carlos, waiting to see if the man trusts the food yet enough to eat it. It's been trial and error for Maul to discover which places can be trusted with the food and which can't.]

Not especially. You will either survive or you won't. That is the way of the world.