An ice maze with no entrance or exit has led online users to designate the unfinished structure a metaphor for the hardships that many Russians face.

Photographs and videos appeared online over the weekend showing children climbing over walls to play inside an ice labyrinth on the Far East island of Sakhalin. Officials told local media the maze will be finished by Dec. 29.

Online users saw the maze as representative of life in today’s Russia.

“It’s a labyrinth and an enclosure in one,” read one tweet. “It is a representation of the Russian state.”