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The system you are talking about sounds like a cross between a direct democracy and a post-scarcity communist society, if you've not read the works of Iain M Banks you should check them out, you are pretty much describing The Culture :).



> The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian society

Woah, yes, that's going to number one on my reading list. Thanks for the recommendation.


IMO possibly the best sci-fi ever written, the stories are incredible and his writing style is sublime.

I envy you getting to read them all for the first time.


I'm reading the Mars trilogy right now. It's also really good.


Haven't read the others, but Red Mars is excellent, and better than Culture, in my opinion (though the latter varies in quality).

For another vision of a futuristic post-scarcity anarchist adhocracy, see James P. Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear, which features less "magical" AI and is more of a reflection on cultural conditioning.




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