Hope in a brutal world, so wonderfully told!! I love the New State, the idea of a CEO at the top, the contrast between those who make the calls, and those who follow through with them. The cigarettes, and the tie-in at the end, was a brilliant touch. Good job Daniels came when called, and not the butcher, things might have gone down differently in the jungle. All it takes for evil to triumph, may be for good men to do nothing, but i love that you show the inverse, all it can take for 'good' to triumph, is both for good men to do nothing (in not shooting each other) and in one man standing up for what he thinks is right. Although equally, you paint both sides and the distorted view of each other so well, it feels over simplistic to reduce it down to good and bad. There are hints of so much in here, there feels like a touch of Brave New World in the natives, almost a hint of Tarzan meets gorilla warfare in the natives, the last forest being wanted as a place for a pleasurable walk, by those who had destroyed everything else has a tinge of that colonial conquering greed, yet the more trivial reason for the violence makes a delightfully absurd mirror. A powerful story, exciting and gripped, with so much more to it <3