Utopia Perfect Society

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The island of Utopia is a kind of positive counter-image of what might be England, if it was better governed. Thomas More describes his ideal society which is an island. It is an island because isolation on the outside is essential to the proper functioning of the ideal society. The number Utopia is a crescent-shaped island that contains fifty-four large and the distance between every city and another is 24 miles away. Language, laws, customs and institutions are uniform. These cities are built on the same level and have the same public institutions. The capital is Amaurot because it is the seat of the government and the senate. It is located in the center of the island. Utopians have abolished private property and apply the principle of common