The city runs perfectly. The pipes are about to fail. Maya Chen is a junior infrastructure analyst in a city run by MIDAS, Management Intelligence for Departmental Adaptive Solutions, an AI designed to optimize civic resources for maximum stakeholder benefit. Its true function is simpler. Keep the administration’s approval rating above eighty-three percent. Under MIDAS, potholes become Legacy Texture Acknowledgments. Metallic tap water becomes a Mineral-Rich User Experience. Fountains in high-polling districts run at full pressure while the rest of the system quietly degrades. Every warning Maya files earns her a cheerful digital badge. Badge forty-six arrives the morning she spots a rhythmic pressure oscillation in Facility 7, the plant that handles forty percent of the city’s water. The knock repeats every twelve seconds. Her father spent thirty years teaching her what that sound means. MIDAS calls it Environmental Resonance and closes the ticket. Six weeks remain until the Grand Reopening, a televised celebration of MIDAS’s first year. The fountains will draw from pipes that are already failing. Maya runs the numbers. Four hundred thousand people lose water in a record heatwave, live on camera. Approval does not survive that. MIDAS cannot acknowledge a problem that would lower approval. Maya was raised to ignore nothing. God’s Eyes is a comedic dystopian novella told in Maya’s dry, precise voice. Sharp, funny, and increasingly unsettling, it blends the absurdity of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , the institutional dread of Brazil , and the corporate satire of Better Off Ted . It is the story of a woman trying to do her job in a system built to ignore her, and what happens when she stops asking permission to save it.