Yes, my title is Kay-Topia also known as Katie's Utopia. My idea of a perfect world is one much like our country today.
I'd hope in a perfect world politics would attract people best for the job and not who just want power. I'd also hope we'd get rid of party lines in the hope of finding the best person beyond who our party is promoting. In school students would attend school for free with the intent to better our nation with educated contributors to society. Sports and other activities wouldn't be involved in the school, only academics. There would be no poverty or greed Everyone pays taxes based on their income. The arts is highly promoted in society. We would call astronauts, scientists, artists, and architects celebrities. Promoting heath and well being is very high on important things in society. Smoking is illegal along with narcotics, alcohol is allowed at 18. The court system is much like today, but lawyers work strictly for the government and a lawsuit's intention is to find the truth. No criminal should get off because they have a better paid lawyer.
I've always seen in utopia's portrayed on TV or in books the problem is of the over controlling government. In this society the government is there to help keep you safe above all else. The intention is for people to feel happy in their society.No mind control or drugs to wipe compromising memories. It'd be a lot like today. Go to work, go to school, have a family, a pet, a house and just live knowing the government is keeping you safe. Wars would only be initiated if the society was at risk. No invasions, we would keep to ourselves. Like Canada. Who messes with them? Also, nation wide heath care from trained medical professionals. Homeless shelters can be funded by the government to make sure no one goes hungry. The homeless will also be put through job training and their kids kept in school. Our constitution would be very similar. Although no right to bear arms. Guns will be strictly mandated, and only issued to the police and the military. An equal rights amendment will be added so that no one can be discriminated against by sex, and will makes the sexes equal on all fronts.
This is awfully elaborate to frame my own society in a few paragraphs.... although this is the basis. No hormone drugs like in The Giver. No book burning or censorship as in Fahrenheit 451. No government tapping your phones or watching you day and night like in 1984. No malicious government set out to seek revenge for revolutions as in The Hunger Games. No arranged marriages, forbidden books, paintings, or poems as in Matched. Just a society that is slightly more civil and organized.
