Title: De-Indexed: A Manual for the Doomed
Premise: The world has evolved into a technocratic dystopia built on hyper-surveillance, AI governance, and algorithmic manipulation. But unlike typical sci-fi dystopias, this one isn't futuristic — it's merely the logical continuation of today. Everything in the story is derived from existing technologies and sociopolitical trends (no magic tech).
Core Idea: Humanity is no longer enslaved by force — but by comfort, convenience, and data. Freedom has been redefined as compliance. The rebellion is not a war — it's a defiance of meaning, a philosophical insurgency against nihilistic automation.
The World (Based on Real-Life Trends):
Build the world using real technologies and societal mechanisms already in motion:
Real Trend Fictionalized Dystopian Extrapolation
AI Surveillance (China, Western police analytics) — Universal "Predictive Citizenship System" that determines your "Societal Worth" via continuous data scans
Digital Currency (CBDCs) — Every transaction traceable; dissent automatically de-funded
Media Manipulation (Propaganda + Algorithms) — Newsfeeds personalized to create unique "subjective realities," so no two people perceive the same truth
Psychological Manipulation via Dopamine — Mandatory "Mood Regulators" in schools and jobs - daily dopamine dosage via wearable neurochips
Climate Policy & Resource Scarcity — Used as a pretext for absolute control over food, water, and mobility
Cancel Culture & Social Scoring — People vanish digitally before physically; "De-Indexed" citizens are treated as legally non-existent
The Protagonist: "The Absurd Rebel"
Think Albert Camus's Sisyphus + Franz Kafka's Josef K. + Neo (Matrix) + Julian Assange archetype.
Name idea:Eidon Varis (Eidon = from Greek "image" or "form", Varis = from "truth/verity")He's not a hero, not moralistic, not even purely sane — but lucid. He understands the absurdity of rebelling against a machine that adapts faster than you can destroy it.
Psychological profile:
INTP-like, hyper-analytical, detached observer of reality.
Suffers "ontological vertigo" — cannot tell what's real vs constructed.
Uses first-principles logic and open-source information to expose societal mechanisms.
Aware that rebellion is futile but still necessary for meaning. ("I rebel, therefore I exist." — Camus)
Survival and Rebellion Realism:
The Real Question is you were the Protagonist How would you Survive in those Circumstances?
How to disappear in a digital world ?
How to survive without digital IDs ?
Psychological survival under totalitarianism ?
Propaganda analysis and media literacy frameworks?
Information warfare tactics?
— It's a rebellion against the world itself, Do you think Eidon Varis can be able free this world from it's dark illusion?