In Sir Thomas More’s Utopia he describes a government in which everything is so ideal. In a meeting with Peter Giles and a fictional character Raphael Hythloday (which he made up in order to tell his story), he describes the wonderful government of Utopia. He introduces the geographical feature of the Utopian Island, the country life, and the cities. The population control, markets, economy, slavery and religion are also acknowledged. Even though he has little hope of seeing many, though not all, his practices adopted in Europe, he whishes to see some go to use.

The Utopian Island as describe by Raphael Hythloday in the introduction to Book II in Utopia, is approximately two hundred miles by 5 hundred miles, and is crescent shaped. An eleven mile harbor which broad from the crescent is form, however the entrance is dangerous to approach, thus it makes it easy to defend. Originally this land was connected to the mainland, however an early ruler had a 15-mile channel dug to create the Island Kingdom of Utopia. In Utopia there are about 54 cities distributed over the island at fairly regular intervals, about 24 miles apart and of approximately equal

The plan of all Utopian cities was similar except for variations in topography. For example the capital, Amaurot covers a piece of land two miles square of the bank of the Anider River, and about sixty miles from the sea. The entire city is walled, and outside the wall is a deep, dry ditch filled with briars. The streets are 20 feet wide, convenient for carriages. The house all look the same and every ten years the residents changes houses by lot.

Utopian always made sure that they would produce enough goods for the whole nation in case of crop failure. That is why they had surpluses for 2 years. The Utopian’s were virtually self- sufficient, they need no imports except for iron to built stuff and gold and silver to pay mercenaries in case of wars. The precious metals such as gold and silver were devalued by society due to the fact that they made slaves wear them as chains and they made pots out of them. So that was the reason no one had any interest for them. This was also away to eliminate money with out any currency.

The population control was no problems for Utopians. The population of each city was maintained at about six thousand, and in the event of a baby boom, some families were sent to other cities, where they would be well accommodated. However if the population of the whole country exceeded their prescribed number, then some citizens where sent of as colonist to other countries that were not so densely packed.

Slaves were either criminals who had been convicted for serious crimes, or prisoners taken in battle, or foreigners who subjected themselves willingly to slavery in Utopia because they were under the death penalty in their own country or because of

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