Zombie Systems: A Unified Field Theory of Necromantic Infrastructure, Metric Drift, and Human Capacity Collapse

Zombie Systems formalizes the quantitative architecture underlying Zombie Society, defining the measurable dynamics of post‑functional governance. It models how modern institutions persist beyond functional death through structural inertia, metric distortion, and human compensation. The paper introduces Zombie Systems Theory (ZST) — a unified field framework integrating necromantic infrastructure, distorted macroeconomic indicators, and human‑capacity depletion into a single coupled dynamical system.Using tensor‑based modeling, ZST demonstrates that GDP, unemployment, and labor participation are not independent metrics but correlated projections of a deeper system state governed by institutional drift and human exhaustion. The Eroded Subject emerges as the stabilizing substrate that absorbs systemic failure to preserve superficial equilibrium. The paper derives eigenstate conditions for collapse and identifies metastable regimes where apparent macroeconomic health masks latent structural decay.This work provides the mathematical foundation for the qualitative system‑state described in Zombie Society, establishing the empirical tractability of the SignalRupture canon.