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Satire State

Name: Satire State
Brand: Mirare Press
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Contributor(s): di Pensare, Christina Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780979827563
Publisher	Mirare Press
Publication date	July 2025
Language	English
MRP	£7.99 GBP
Page count	112
Item weight	31 g

Satire State: Dispatches from the Obedient Republic

by Christina di Pensare

What if democracy didn't die in darkness-but in daylight, with polite applause and a standing ovation? In this searing collection of satirical fables, Christina di Pensare takes aim at the absurdities of authoritarianism disguised as order, obedience, and patriotic performance.

With sharp wit and dark hilarity, di Pensare issues a series of dispatches from the Obedient Republic -each more chilling, absurd, and uncomfortably familiar than the last-that chart the bureaucratic banality of modern authoritarianism.

In the Obedient Republic, citizens nod hourly, perform thrice-daily nationally-mandated splits, and wear matching crutches in solidarity with their Supreme Leader's stubbed toe.

No feeling is safe. No metaphor is approved. No citizen is taller than the President.

From ministries that ban cutlery and metaphors, to trials for teenagers who dared to moon the Presidential motorcade, Satire State conjures a nation teetering on the edge of madness-one bureaucratic decree at a time.

Reminiscent of the dark irony of Jonathan Swift, the gallows humor of George Saunders, and the prophetic sting of George Orwell, these dispatches read like parody-until they don't.

These aren't warnings from the future. They're funhouse reflections of the present.

Satire State is laugh-out-loud funny-until it isn't.

Satire State

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di Pensare, Christina Author

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