ASSIGNED HAPPINESS
Your joy is mandatory. Your compliance is monitored.

In a world where smiling isn't just encouraged—it's enforced—every citizen's expression is tracked, analyzed, and judged. Artificial happiness fuels society, and anything less than perfect joy means punishment... or worse.

Maya, a seemingly ordinary citizen known as 2734B, begins her day like everyone else—with a mandatory smile scan and a dose of synthetic happiness. But when a glitch in the system reveals a hidden room in her apartment and the journal of a mother she barely remembers, Maya discovers a secret that could unravel the lie her world is built on.

Meanwhile, Elara, a high-level technician working inside the Central Happiness Monitoring Facility, uncovers disturbing data: the government's leaders are exempt from the very standards they enforce. As she digs deeper, a cryptic message leads her to "The Frowns"—a forbidden underground network resisting the joy regime.

As Maya and Elara's paths collide, they uncover the horrifying truth behind the Emotional Stability Act and the technology that turns forced smiles into power for the ruling elite. But the clock is ticking. With National Happiness Day approaching, one mistake could cost them their lives—or ignite a revolution.

Assigned Happiness is a chilling and emotionally charged dystopian thriller about control, resistance, and what it truly means to feel.