Safe Population

When a city decides who counts, no one is truly safe.After discovering how people can be erased, forgotten or classified by systems no one can see, Lia uncovers something even more disturbing: a city designed to protect only those who have been deemed safe.Everyone else continues to live at the edges of the records, decisions and guarantees that determine who belongs.As Lia investigates the criteria behind this classification, she begins to understand that safety may simply be another name for control — and that a system created to reduce risk can also decide who deserves protection and who can be left behind.The closer she gets to the centre of the structure, the more dangerous one question becomes: what happens when a society begins to confuse safety with obedience?The Safe Population is the fourth volume in The Archive of the Absent, a technological and psychological thriller about surveillance, exclusion, identity and the cost of living inside a system that believes it can decide who is safe.