CREATE YOUR OWN UTOPIA
Create your own utopia:
Due to the energy crisis and the breakdown of social order, more and more people are fleeing to the OASIS to spend their lives in a digital world. You are a visionary leader that hopes to create one of the following order to help:
A real world community of like minded utopians
A utopia-coded community on a world of your creation within the OASIS of like-minded utopians
Task:
You will create a Utopian system and advertise in a presentation for people to join you in that utopia. You will create a presentation either as a group or individually and present your utopian ideal to your peers in one of the following formats
Powerpoint presentation
Pamphlet
YouTube advertisement
Website
If people join — great! If they do not, it looks like you will be perfectly happy in the best place in the universe by yourself.
Your world must work around the following structures:
Government
Agriculture/Economy/Industry
Location/Climate
Population
BUILDING BLOCKS OF YOUR UTOPIA
Your presentation must contain each of the following major building blocks of your society.
GOVERNMENT
Here are some to choose from:
Democracy
Dictatorship
Totalitarian
Monarchy
You must have some kind of government!
You may choose to incorporate several aspects of different government structures.
Is there healthcare? Schools? What kind of laws?
You should research all of these to decide which works and which does not!
LOCATION & CLIMATE
Compare and contrast your location with one that would not work for your utopia. Research the differences.
Where is your perfect world geographically? (If you are creating a real-world utopia, where on planet Earth is it located? If you are creating an OASIS utopia, describe the geography of that planet)
What is the weather like?
Why is your perfect world in this place? What does it offer to your population?
Does the climate have an effect on another aspect of your society? Think about the risk of natural disasters.
Agriculture, Economy & Industry
Research the following economic structures:
Socialism
Capitalism
Pure Market
Market economy
Does your society import or export anything?
How does your society make money?
What kind of jobs do people have? Are they valuable? Why?
Why is your society productive?
Population
What is the culture like? What is the culture based around? This must be the culture of your real location.
What kind of people are in your society? What do they look like? Why? Is this a result of survival of the fittest?
Do people get married? Is there a limit on family size?
Do people typically live long or short lives? Why?
Is there art, music, dance, storytelling, etc.?