Got it — and honestly, 摆烂 carries that energy pretty well in context. It's not a polite word. In mainland China it's read as a direct rejection of the system's demands: stop performing, stop complying with the productivity treadmill, stop pretending the rules are working. That's exactly the spirit you're describing.
A few related characters/phrases that lean harder in your direction if you ever want variations:
润 (rùn) — literally "moisten," but in slang it means "to GTFO" / leave the country / escape the system. Pronounced like "run" in English, which is the whole joke. Heavy among Chinese dissidents and people fed up with state control.
反 (fǎn) — single character meaning "oppose / rebel / counter." Clean, bold, fits your aesthetic. Pairs with almost anything: 反抗 (fǎnkàng, resist), 反叛 (fǎnpàn, rebel).
自由 (zìyóu) — freedom. Direct and unambiguous.
不服 (bùfú) — "I don't submit / I don't accept it." Defiant, conversational, the kind of thing you'd actually say to someone's face.
On the spiritual framing — that's a serious worldview and I won't pretend to slot it neatly into a t-shirt slogan. But if you want the Biblical/Chinese intersection, 出埃及 (chū Āijí) is "Exodus" — the leaving of Egypt, the departure from bondage. It's loaded with meaning in Chinese house-church tradition, where believers have lived under exactly the kind of state pressure you're talking about. 属神 (shǔ shén) — "belonging to God" — is another one with weight in that community.
Your 零 design from before still hits in the same family, by the way — the "zero / nothing / null" reading works as a quiet refusal too.
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