Scob Nation

The Climate Overman wants to reprogram your morality.

In a near-future America fractured by climate extremism, Mateo Anaya has one mission: to find his son after a global cyber-event. But the country he once knew has become unrecognizable, a totalitarian state where the crusade to save the planet is more terrifying than the disaster itself.

Welcome to Scob Nation, where body-modified zealots called Flagellantes patrol the streets with sewn nostrils and glowing LED brows, where grotesque bio-engineered “stoinks” roam a carbon-monitored wasteland, and where color-coded temple-discs track every action, thought, and moral failure. This is a world where climate denial is visible, punishable and, above all, fixable. 

Mateo is no hero, just a cynical father on a nightmare road trip across a shattered nation. With each desperate mile, he faces new distortions of climate virtue: kangaroo courts dispensing instant justice, Jim Crow-i-dors enforcing social purity, and factions whose climate righteousness has rotted into vigilante justice.

At the center of it all stands Blonden Viate, The Climate Overman, architect of the Scob Nation prison camps and Probitas reprogramming centers. Viate has merged moral engineering with machine learning, enlisting Big Tech to imprison climate offenders and recode their psyches through neural modification. The outcome is predictable: a nation of obedient sycophants, ruled by those who claim moral perfection and control the algorithms that define it.

Yet even in a nation rebuilt on fear and control, human connection persists. Alongside weary travelers Houston, Brock, and Lucien, Mateo discovers that humanity still flickers where control is never quite complete.

Part dystopian thriller, part cautionary tale about society's techno-hubris, Scob Nation is a bullet train through a future that feels disturbingly within reach.  Dark climate satire for our times, Scob Nation asks a critical question: what are we willing to give up in the name of climate justice?