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The Gospel of the Green Fire: confessions from a Mind Control Corp. Employee
A dystopia of control, delirium, and inner fire
At first, they lost the right to exist. After that, their escape route was closed off.
Jacob and Joanna got to Rivalia trying to escape the war and ruins of the Tserán Basin. They tried to live off the wages that were the source of their humiliation every month—but the system trod on them completely as if they were insects. Now they reside several kilometers underground where they move with their child through holes and tunnels that lead to mincers of cockroaches, rats, and “unproductive” humans, pulverizing them into paste and selling it as a snack called “The Nugget,” that is served with “Sassi Sauce.” that they export to the world.
Jacob keeps telling himself that his child is the messiah. Joanna only wants to run away. But in a world dominated by productivity, where dignity is being punished, even hope is turned into a product for sale.
Brutalism and totalitarianism in everything: the architecture, the feeling, the economy, and even the breath.
This is not just a story—this is the system you are a part of.
Key Characters
Who dwells between silence and storm.
Jacob
Jacob loses everything - his home, his parents, and Brisalida, the instrument he loved like aperson, which he believed could play the language of the gods.
He forms the nexum ring union with Joanna, and they travel to Rivalia with their child, Joseph John.
In this new land, Jacob became something more than a father - he became Joseph’s best friend and protector.
Although Jacob left Brisalida behind him, he still carries Brisalida in his heart, attempting to pass it along to his son in the form of love, memories, and quiet strength.
Joanna
Joanna grew up among olive trees , making crowns from twigs and flowers as she played in the fields. She formed the nexum union with Jacob and settled in Panopolis Prime , where soap operas became her everyday comfort until the war tore through her building and shattered her peace. Fleeing with Jacob and their son Joseph John, she arrives in Rivalia, a land haunted by horror . There, she is forced to confront the unthinkable: processing and frying nugget paste made from corpses , the topical food consumed and exported to the world. Joanna’s path traces the fall from innocence to survival , from love to grief, as she finds strength in the ruins of everything she once knew.
Joseph John
Joseph John is born in a bunker, while bombs rain down on Panopolis Prime. His first breath is taken in hiding, wrapped in fear and love. Soon after, he joins his parents, Jacob and Joanna, in the long queue to the black gate, where the maglev train to Rivalia awaits.
He becomes his father’s best friend, sharing stories of fairies trapped in the city and having deep, joyful “babababa” conversations that sparkle with meaning. With Jacob’s help, Joseph begins to discover his magical powers, like the mighty “fiummm”—a force that can open gates and scare off gigantic evil diabolical robotical wasps.
He is a bubbly, chubby little fella, full of laughter, wonder, and the kind of magic that only children carry: the power to turn ruins into playgrounds and fear into friendship.
The Witness
He never reveals his name. He works for Mind Control Corp., a faceless giant that pays him to monitor , manipulate, and dismantle lives. He tells the story from within the system an insider, a cog , a ghost in the machine . But he is tormented. Each day , he watches the people he’s meant to control: their laughter, their grief, their fragile hopes. And something inside him begins to fracture. He feels love, not romantic, but sacred, for the very souls he’s ordered to erase. His voice trembles between duty and devotion. He is both destroyer and witness, and his story is a confession: of complicity , of longing, and of the intolerable beauty of the lives he’s meant to forget .
Other Key concepts that appear in The Gospel of the Green Fire
Here are some of the core elements that shape the strange, haunted world of Rivalia
Mind Control Corp.
Mind Control Corp. reads minds, rewrites language, erases memories, and implants voices. It controls what people can say. Its technologies are expanding, and the worst may still be undiscovered.
Robotic Network
Rivalia is saturated with technology. Dronibots hover and glide through the air, scanning, filming, and spying on everything—streets, homes, even whispers. They are the eyes of the system, always watching.
Gigantic robotic wasps patrol the skies and streets. They surveil, they carry supplies, guard stores, and even transport children to the nursery.
Sassi
Sassi is a secret volcanic extract—drawn from molten lava and infused into everyday products. It’s highly addictive. Found in food, drink, medicine, and tech, it causes varying levels of dependence, from mild craving to total submission. In Rivalia, almost everything contains Sassi.
Rocky Wormy Network
Rocky Wormy Network is Rivalia’s tunneling technology—alive, fractal, and ravenous. It’s made of multi-headed living worms that spread like roots, biting through rock, soil, and steel. Their heads multiply in fractal patterns, carving endless burrows beneath the planet.
The Nugget
The Nugget is Rivalia’s global export—a paste sold everywhere, consumed by millions, and made from everything. Roaches, rats, industrial residue, recycled corpses. It’s processed, fried, and flavored with Sassi, making it addictive and palatable. Most don’t ask what’s inside. Most don’t want to know.
The Black Gates
The Black Gates are colossal doors scattered across the planet—each one a portal to the underground maglev train stations. They mark the entry point for extraction of resources and human labor. Like the tentacles of a vast mechanical octopus, they reach into every region, pulling people and goods into the system’s depths.
The Fangs
The Fangs are inverted pyramids that plunge deep into the earth—massive, buried constructs that anchor Rivalia’s underworld. They form the core infrastructure of the Dark Word, the subterranean zone of the megalopolis where workers are stacked in tiers, frying Nugget, extracting Sassi, and performing tasks no surface citizen dares to name.
The Music of Light
The Music of Light is Rivalia’s most beloved toy—though it’s played by children, elders, and even workers in the Fangs. It beams laser-like threads into the air, mimicking the strings of real instruments. Run your fingers through the light, and it sings.
Megalopolis
The Cluster of Megalopolis is the beating heart of Rivalia—six colossal cities, each with over 20 million inhabitants. Above ground, they shimmer with outer structures: towers, spires, and the floating elite zones known as Beberly Sky Islands, where privilege lives in sunlight. But beneath the surface lies the Dark Word—a buried world of labor and heat, anchored by the inverted pyramids called Fangs. This is where workers are stacked, Sassi is extracted, and Nugget is fried.
The telechip
The Telechip is Rivalia’s neural implant. It pumps publicity straight into the brain, bypassing screens, speech, and choice. Ads, slogans...—they arrive as thoughts, dreams, and cravings.
Intelligel
Intelligel is Rivalia’s living gel—used in pods like the Baby Pods, where it surrounds the body like a second womb. It regulates temperature, adapts to movement, and allows respiration by forming delicate air channels around the mouth and nostrils without penetrating them. Its vacuola system neutralizes debris, urine, and stool, keeping the pod clean and the body undisturbed.
The Lifts
The Lifts are Rivalia’s vertical veins—mechanical shafts that extract resources straight from the Dark Word and deliver them into the franchises of the Corpus Medio, the city’s middle stratum.
Nexum Rings
Nexum Rings are Rivalia’s binding tokens—required to access rent discounts, mortgage relief, and even the right to emigrate or obtain a visa. Couples must seal their pact with a Nexum Ring, or remain trapped in limbo. Each ring contains a hidden contract, printed in microscopic text across a thousand unreadable pages. No one reads it. Everyone signs it.
Relaxing Coffee
Relaxing Roast is Rivalia’s new global trend—cafeterias blooming like corridors of caffeine on every high street. They offer the elusive third place: not home, not work, but a soft in-between where time slows and taste buds hum. You sit beneath hanging light bulbs, wooden beams, soft elevator music, and lush plants. Sip your brew, breathe in the Sassi-laced aroma, and whisper, oh là là… this is the life. In Rivalia comfort is a franchise.
The Anti
The Anti is a telechip-bound technology that projects overlapping visions directly onto your visual field. It inscribes directional arrows, path markers, and symbolic cues onto the world around you. With the Anti active, these signs remain fixed in sight.
Banana World
“Banana World” is a colloquial way people refer to the planet where this story unfolds. Like the term república bananera, it evokes a place that looks colorful and fertile on the surface—but beneath, it’s shaped by exploitation, foreign control, and power games.