1. How does your utopia deal with birth and death?
- There is a celebration like marriage that takes place. Friends and family come for a celebration after the baby is born, then the mother gets time with her baby.
- Death is something that the whole society takes part in. The societies are so bonded together, everybody knows eachother. So whenever someone dies, it is a mournful time for the whole society. They give a funeral, then bury them on the outer edges of the valley.
2. What is beautiful in the eyes of your citizens?
- Beautiful can be many things. It can be the flowers and the sun, the birds and the clouds, a beautiful painting, or a peaceful resolution. Many people like to see people get back together when they argue. The sparkling snow on the mountain is beautiful. The white stag of winter is beautiful, the sparkling breed of a saphire, ruby, and diamond, children sledding down a hill, and love. Love is beautiful. A great stone statue is beautiful, a compromise is beautiful, the holy A' Ko'e is beautiful, the mating song of a Sand Worm is beautiful, a baby is beautiful, a woman is beautiful, a beaming child is beautiful. In the Utopian Islands, everything is beautiful.
3. What is the safeguard on corruption in your society?
- One word: Teamwork. It bonds society and the three islands together, creating an unbreakable friendship between them all. Rebelion is no concept, because anyone with an idea of how to change society takes it to the Elders, who vote on it, then let the people of the society vote on it. Also, when any one island is in loss of food, population, or anything else, the two other islands contribute tohelping them, keeping them alive and well.
4. How does your utopia make human nature (the flaws, sins, and evil that inevitably arise in any society)?
- Anyone who commits a sin against the law, or the seven commandments is given one to two chances to make up their actions, and never do them again, or else they are sent outside of the valley to attempt to make their way back to the shore, which is almost impossible with all the dangers of outside of the valley.
B. What are the "what if" questions and answers that could break a society?
- What if a natural disaster comes, like a tidal wave or a hurricane?
- The two islands that are vurnable to this are the Rainforest and Desert Islands. The mountain island is too high off sea level to be effected by those things. The other two islands have passages under the valley that are built into rock, protecting from any natural disaster. If a natural disaster happens, all the food is stocked under ground. There are also small trees planted under ground to provide for oxygen
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