Mandatory Euphoria

Forced daily to jack into a state-run neural feed of brain-numbing, absurdist game shows, Elias’s goal is simple: avoid notice, endure the nonsense, and return to his quietly squalid existence. But when a system glitch violently drags him from the audience and into the spotlight, his carefully cultivated invisibility shatters. Mandatory Euphoria is a darkly comedic sci-fi satire about a man who rediscovers his will to live by refusing to be happy.