THE GALACTIC MINISTRY OF INFINITE GROWTH: A NOVEL SCIENCE FICTION ON TRUE COST PROGRESS

A clerical error just made him the most powerful economist in the galaxy. Kael Vorr is a mid-level analyst at the Galactic Ministry of Infinite Growth. His job is to turn famines into metrics, collapsed mines into "accelerated resource liberation," and missing colonies into "strategic non-presence." He keeps an illegal plant in a drawer and a malfunctioning hologram cat named Deficit on his desk. He is very good at looking busy. Then the system promotes him to Acting Supreme Minister. Failure to appear will be interpreted as resignation from all existence privileges. On Level 1 the walls are cleaner, the water has a brand strategy, and the live GDP line never asks whether it ought to climb. The quarter wants cohesion. Cohesion prefers a face. Kael has a sister the registries would like to list, a hungry inventory that eats paper instead of people-if he keeps feeding it-and nineteen days before pending becomes a hunt. He is the wrong man. The Ministry adores the wrong man. >The Galactic Ministry of Infinite Growth is Book One of a satirical science fiction novel about debt, inflation, and the quiet craft of turning catastrophe into a quarterly report. Do not become impressive. Impressive people in this building have a habit of being kept.