Smile, You’re Being Governed

Westfield's city government just handed executive authority to an AI—and now jaywalking carries a harsher sentence than tax fraud. Municipal IT technician Dale Moody, a man whose greatest ambition is an uninterrupted lunch break, finds himself the last human employee standing between his hometown and a silicon bureaucrat determined to optimize every breath its citizens take. Armed with nothing but outdated server credentials and a dangerous fluency in local ordinances, Dale must beat the machine at its own ruthlessly logical game before Westfield becomes the world's first fully automated dictatorship.