Beschrijving

The system works.

The Authority allocates food with mathematical precision, ensuring that millions survive in a world reshaped by flood and collapse. Every calorie is accounted for. Every distribution point is tracked. Every outcome is modeled.

Dani’s job is to support the system – to fill the minor gaps it cannot close.

Then she notices something that doesn’t fit.

A few postcodes. A few numbers. A pattern so small it should be meaningless.

But the deeper she looks, the clearer it becomes: the system isn’t failing.

It’s working exactly as designed.

And somewhere inside that design is a decision no one was supposed to see.

As Dani follows the data, she is forced into a confrontation not just with the Authority, but with a question that has no clean answer:

If a system can save millions by sacrificing thousands quietly, should it?

And who gets to decide?

A sharp, unflinching dystopian novel about data, power, and the human cost of optimization – The Ration Year explores what happens when efficiency becomes morality, and when noticing too much becomes dangerous.