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Any dictionary will give you this much: n: An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. Easy enough. Let's write one! First, you come up with a socially perfect place with a flawless political process. A little difficult, but you'll get there, sure... Now figure out what "moral" means well enough to refine it to an absolute. Hey, it was tough, but you came through in the end. Now get everyone to agree with you. Yeah. We can't help you with that part. In fact, it is so much easier to get people to agree with what is wrong with a place that most social-commentary settings fall into the dystopia category. When a brave author does attempt a utopian setting, it seems to come from a need to grind a particular axe. Thus we get libertarian/conservative/progressive utopias, religious utopias, communal utopias, and other philosophic one-note offerings, each with its own collection of people attesting they would rather die than live there. It helps that the word itself was created to mean such a place can't possibly exist because it's that good.note The word is actually a pun; "utopia" by itself means "no place", but is pronounced identically (in English at least) to "eutopia", meaning 'good place'. The downfall of a utopia in the main character's eyes will most likely be seeing the inevitable, thorough suppression of individuality. How else could everybody get along all the time? Even in individualistic utopias, the supposedly rugged individualists who compose the perfect society have a suspicious tendency to agree on everything (or at least everything political) and act in similar ways. The end of violent conflict seems to require uniformity. See also Perfect Pacifist People and Utopia Justifies the Means. Contrast with (of course) Dystopia. May run on Aesoptinum. A Crapsaccharine World can be a subversion or a deconstruction of this trope. A False Utopia is a mix of both sides — all the looks of a utopia, but all the problems of a dystopia to maintain it. Common flavors include: Arcadia — a place where people embrace the good old ways and live in wondrous simplicity. Crystal Spires and Togas — When extreme technological advancement wraps itself in the trappings of ancient civilization's aesthetics. Heaven: The ideal afterlife. Sugar Bowl — where cuteness and sweetness is king. No Poverty — a frequent feature of any Utopia. For the eponymous book by Thomas More, see here. If you're looking for the British drama series of the same name, see here, or for the Australian comedy series, see here. |
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In the episode Neutopia, a "neutered utopia" is created when the crew and their passengers crash-land on a planet where an alien takes away everyone's genitals, causing a blissful, conflict-free society. However, once they remember how good sex was, they demand to have their genitals back. Unfortunately, the alien gives them back wrong... | |
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The big plan behind the plot of Scanner's Concept Album Hypertrace is to build a galaxy-spanning utopia called Terrion. | |
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Always Coming Home, an anthropological record of a futuristic Solar Punk After the End society, is another LeGuin utopia. It's rather atypical for one though: while everyone is well fed and cared for, homophobia and sexism are minimized, there seems to be no police or army, and they are In Harmony with Nature, there's still superstition, division, occasional violence, and prejudice. The argument seems to be that while a perfect society might be impossible, there's still ways to create a significantly better society. | |
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In his Observation on the Spot, another Ijon Tichy vehicle, Tichy visits Lusania-a country on the planet mentioned in one of his earlier adventures, where everyone lives in a seemingly perfect Utopia brought in by hypertech nanomachines. Half of the book is devoted to deconstruction of the folly of its creators-from Tichy's standpoint he couldn't help but notice glaring holes in the logic and workings of their society. And vice versa. | |
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Given the replicator along with other high technologies (such as in medicine), there is some justification for the end of poverty and disease, but war obviously is still around. It would also make sense for humans to pull together after the Third World War and first contact with the Vulcans. Still, there are clear problems-for one, the implications of many technologies are barely touched upon-and it hardly justifies the Planet of Hats thing. | |
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Lady Land in Gandahar is in perfect harmony with nature until destruction comes. | |
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Heinlein was actually fond of deconstructing utopias. None of the societies he described are really utopian and the one in Starship Troopers is accepted by the masses simply because it works satisfactorily. It effectively deconstructs the utopia largely because of this and that the other methods of governing worked as well, though badly, and it is indicated that the society in the novel is just as faulty and came about largely because of the collapse of the previously existing systems, leaving no apparent better alternative. | |
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The Big Bad of the sequel, Chuck De Nomolos seems to be entirely motivated by really hating the music that his society runs on. It appears some folks will always be tortured in any utopia. | |
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Though it is debatable just how utopian the Shire actually is. It is worth remembering that all the hobbits that are POV characters except Sam are members of wealthy and powerful families, with Pippin being the son of the Thane of the Shire, and Sam is, in spite of his youth, pretty much an Old Retainer. Also, while no-one is denying that the Shire is probably one of the nicest places in Middle-Earth to live, the hobbits are also portrayed as insular, xenophobic, reactionary, clannish, gossipy and prone to Tall Poppy Syndrome in the extreme. Frodo himself expresses frustration with this mindset, feeling that an invasion of Dragons or an earthquake would do them some good. The books also make it clear that the Rangers of the North are responsible for the hobbits' ability to live in peace. It is also quite telling that when Lotho starts tearing up the Shire, the only recourse offered is "Talk to the Bagginses and hope they sort him out" and when he starts bringing in muscle from outside there is no power that prevents him from doing so. It falls the the Hobbits who have been to the outside to rally the Shire and deal with the ruffians. As the elf Gildor Inglorion points out hobbits can fence themselves in but they cannot fence the world out. | |
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War does not exist internally within the Federation, though it is a problem that the Federation tends to have with neighboring powers. Given the Federation's expansion and the availability of entire new planets for colonization, it is not surprising that many social issues are simply gone. No Federation race has to cram their entire population onto just one world if they do not want to. Thus common problems in future settings, such as overpopulated mega cities are just not present because anybody that wants more open space can move to a less densely populated colony (overpopulation also seems to be prevented by contraceptive injections mentioned in a couple episodes). | |
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Gradually subverted in Strugatsky Brothers's Noon Universe. While the early installments portrayed the world of the 22nd Century as a more-or-less straight-forward communist utopia, later novels began to subtly undermine this picture. Characters found themselves facing problems that clashed with their utopian mindset, the supposedly just government was revealed to be increasingly ruthless and duplicitous and the 22nd century scarcity-free society was shown to breed a class of bored intellectuals who went to extreme lengths to make themselves feel useful. | |
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The second movie, "The Beast with a Billion Backs" almost ends with all of the universe living in a Utopian setting on a galaxy-sized tentacled alien that loves everyone (romantically), renders them immortal, and looks like The Theme Park Version of Heaven. Then a jealous Bender and his robotic Army of the Damned invade "Heaven" and end up getting everyone exiled, because True Love is Jealous and Needy. | |
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Deconstructed in Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker. There was once an alien civilization known as the Plenty who eventually eliminated everything that caused sorrow and strife. There was no death, war, sickness, hunger, or pain. They lived in fields of beauty in joy and peace. But eventually, they realized that they no longer had anything to strive for in life, that joy lost its savor without sorrow. Having grown apathetic with their perfect lives, the Plenty eventually created a means to commit mass suicide. | |
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L. Neil Smith's The Probability Broach has his protagonist accidentally crossing over from a dystopian United States collapsing under a Shadow Dictator government to an Alternate Universe where North America is a highly advanced libertarian society. | |
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The galaxy-spanning civilization, enabled by sufficiently advanced technology, known only as The Culture which appears in Iain M. Banks's novels is very Utopian, at least internally. The majority of the novels are set on the fringes, concerning the Culture's covert operations within other societies, which are portrayed as very morally ambiguous, but mostly considered justified, as their aim is to make all civilizations as Utopian as their own. | |
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