Ric's+Utopia

=Utopia Proposal= Official Name of Utopia Proposed: Terra Nihilum

Directions: Please complete all sections of the proposal. You may do this one one page or many connected pages. You may use media to enhance your ideas, but all media must be cited correctly and used with the permission of the creator. You may weave these answers into a story or you may answer them all directly. Please copy this page onto a new one (labeling it with your first name or blog user name only) and start from there.

I. Origins
A. How will this Utopia come into being? Be very specific about deliberate creation versus accidental creation. //As the name implies, It came from nothing into nothing. A strange place was "found" and was moved into by the people who want a new life. No one knows where the place came from or who made it. Only thing they know are what the people who made it left behind, which are the "rules", government system, etc.//

B. What is the time line for the creation and development of this Utopia? If you began building tomorrow, where will your society be in 5 years? In 50 years? In 500 years? //Well, since it was only "found" the building of the population works someting like this: In five years, we will be at the same number as in 500 years.//

C. How do people find out about your Utopia? Do people accidentally stumble across it through exploration? Is a member of the society telling the story of the utopia? //As said in A., it was found as if it came out of nowhere. A family is walking down a city street when the son, (brilliantly) falls into a manhole. Underneath the city was the hidden city. Where then they became the first inhabitants.//

II. Population and Demographics
A. Please indicate the projected population statistics here: Year one: number of women 1, men 1, children 2, Year fifty: number of women 50, men 50, children 100, Year five hundred: number of women 500, men 500, children 1000,

B. Does this Utopia have specific criteria for entry? If so, please list the criteria here. (Do not forget to list language(s) spoken.) If not, please proceed to the next section. //Nope. It was found by random people. Random people are allowed.//

C. What are the specific skills, if any, possessed by the first generation of citizens in this Utopia? //Since they are all random people, there is no need for a special skill.//

D. How does your Utopia deal with the concept of race, especially in its incecption (beginning)? Does it have only one race? Does it allow mixed race bonds to be formed? //Everyone will be the same. One way or another. Everyone will be the same. The skin will be genetically altered. The figure of each person will be altered.//

III. Culture, Social Customs, and Family Structure
A. Education of citizens is an important aspect in most civilizations. How will this Utopia respond to the following issues: 1. Access to education //Each child when he/she comes to age, (about 10) the are homeschooled by the main leader*. There they will only be taught what they need for basic life, and for their occupation**. No other knoledge is needed.**//

//*Leader of the occupation Each person is born into the trade, so if the parents are farmers, then the children would be too.// 2. Curriculum taught and vehicle(s) for curriculum delivery //Oops, see above.//

3. Value placed on the role of Educators //They are just the "elders" of the occupations, and the elders are cycled through, so everyone at one point will be one.//

B. How will this Utopia address the following issues regarding religion? 1. State sanctioned religion vs. multiple religious traditions //There will be no religion present. This utopia believes in no man greater than them, but worship themselves in substitute.*//

a. If a state sanctioned religion, what level of observance will be required? What will enforcement procedures entail? //Again, there is no religion, so required observance is not needed.//
 * //if this confuses you, let me know, I'll try to explain it better if it seems odd.//

2. Observance of eastern and western religions as they currently exist vs. the creation of a new religion or many new religions? //Techanically a new religion, but at the same time not.//

C. Arts and Entertainment: Most great societies encourage the flourishing of the full range of human talents. (Note: do not address censorship in this section; see the Government section) How will this Utopia accommodate the following activities: 1. Literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, etc.) //Not needed. Fiction is fantasy and is unreal. Those of the Terra Nihilum believe that you cannot mask yourself from the true life you are in. Also with drama, since it unreal you are living someone else's life, (who doesn't even exist.) Now, nonfiction is also uneeded because people are only allowed to learn that of what is needed. Too much information can cause the downfall.//

2. Fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, acting, dance, etc.) //Trivial matters. These aren't worth anything but the actual materials themselves. Acting and dancing both go along with what was above.//

3. Music (instrumental - classic, instrumental - contemporary, vocal, etc.) //Used for emotion. Studies have proven that different types of music affect you, so at differnet time, you are forced to listen to the type of music that will help in in whatever you are doing.//

4. Film (documentary, animation, fiction, etc.) //Aaaahhhh, again, trivial. Same as #1.//

5. Sports //Again, my new favourite word, trivial. sports provide no importance to the economy.//

6. Value placed on the role of Artists and Athletes //None at all. Since the jobs are trivial as the products, the producers of the trivial product are just as uneeded.//

D. Food: Will this Utopia have a national dish? What will be the prevailing cultural attitude toward food? (For example, necessary evil or daily joy?) //Spending time to make food look god is trivial, but this utopia has a dish that is required for every different meal and day, but the main meal is the one on thursdays, (thursdays to them are like sundays in the catholic religion, in a way) which is a dish that contains meats such as beef and pork mixed together with fish for the iodine and the meats for the protein and is smothered in a bland calcium-rich sauce. The reason for this meal is on the day of "resting"you get the most nutrients.// //The attitude is just boring. They are brainwashed to believe food is used for fuel and not for pleasure.//

IV. Industry, Agricultre, and Geography
A. What is the geography of this utopian place? What are the major geographical features (bodies of water, mountains, canyons, etc.)? What does this place look like? //Eventually I will post a walktrough,(like on the homepage with Moran) but this place is exetremely bland. Fanciness is not needed. And prohibited. There is no real reason to have anything like that. So everything looks exactly the same as the other.//

B. What natural resources, if any, are available? How will they be used? //Boring means boring. There is nothing.//

C. Is the climate suitable for agriculture? If so, what crops will be cultivated? Please make reference to population statistics for feasibility calculation. //Crops are inexistant. The food used are either meats or other ex-living animals and fish, or completely artificial. Yes, the Terra Nihilumium diet consists of chemicals.//

D. How are jobs determined? What percentage of the workforce is dedicated to the survival and growth of the Utopia? //Through the family. You are born into a trade.And 100% of the jobs are important to the survival. This pressure on the person's shoulders puts in a little, "guilt" and force the person to work well so the place doesn't fail. And this pressure is that if one person doesn't get their job done, the utopia will be thrown into catastrophe. And taking a day for for sick is impossible.*//

E. Is this Utopia notable for any particular crop (e.g. silk, kiwi fruit) or industry (e.g. postage stamps, fine furniture)? //Crops again don't exist, but the industry doesn't produce anything more than needed. So Terra Nihilum has nothing to be proud of because pride is trivial.//
 * //will be explained later.//

F. What, if anything, is imported? From whom? //Nothing. Everything is produced, and again stresses the importance of each job.//

G. What, if anything, is exported? To whom? //Again, nothing, because everything produced is needed for survival.//

V. Government
A. Describe and, if possible, name the informing political philosophy of this Utopia.

C. Describe the level of participation in the following governmental activities: 1. Choosing/removing leaders

2. Creating/changing laws

D. What are the “checks” on governmental power, if any?

E. How does this government support or suppress the expression of individual ideas?

F. What are the methods and means of law enforcement and military operations (both peace keeping and war making): 1. At the local level?

2. At the national level?

3. At the international (or global) level?

G. What type, if any, of diplomacy will this Utopia use?

H. What type, if any, currency will this Utopia use?

VI. Infrastructure
A. Community services 1. Health Care/Hospitals

2. Libraries

3. Fire protection

4. Other

B. Urban planning 1. Types of homes (single-family, multiple-family, apartment complexes, long houses, etc.

2. Zoning for industrial and warehouse areas

3. Recreation centers

C. Funding

1. Taxes

2. Contributions from industry

VII: Reaction to Society and Other Utopias (You may want to wait until you have finished your reaction novel in order to complete this section)
A. How is your Utopia a reaction to the utopia that you read about in your independent novel?

B. What historical precedents (or from other works of fiction) have influenced your Utopian ideas?

C. How is your Utopia a reaction to the society that you are living in?

IX. Unique Features of this Utopia
Please use this section to elaborate on special aspects of your Utopia which did not fit any category on the proposal form.