EMBER REPUBLIC

There are years in history that break the world. Years where the old order burns quietly at first, in the corners of forgotten cities, then wildly, in full view of trembling empires. 2040 was such a year. They thought they could contain us with silence. That by ignoring our screams, deleting our footage, and whitewashing our grief, we would forget who we were. But Gen Z was never designed to forget. We were born plugged in, hardwired to the cloud, fluent in truth and defiance. When bullets rained, we didn t just bleed we recorded. When our cries were muted, we wrote code. We encrypted hope. We hid it in songs, in memes, in shadows of networks they couldn t touch. We were not leaders. We were sparks. We didn t plan a revolution. We became it. And when the gates of power refused to open, we didn t knock. We burned them down. This is the story of the uprising that reshaped a nation. Of Zia, who turned pain into strategy. Of Kasa, who built fire from fragments. Of the forgotten youth who turned memory into war. Of betrayal, survival, and the cost of a better world. Some call it a rebellion. Others, a terror. But we call it what it truly was: An Ember Republic.