Journal Entry #5427
We thrive on happiness here. It is our very blood. There isn’t one thing that the people of our city lack in order to be peaceful and merry. I often lie awake at night wondering how I can make our Tranquility even more perfect—more visionary. I’ve read and studied Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, which is an amazing blueprint for our society. Our municipality is based on More’s original ideas. One of my favorite excerpts is this, paraphrased slightly in more modern language:
“If a man wants a position and goes after it with selfishness, he loses it for certain. The office and the people live in harmony and love among themselves. The Magistrates never conduct themselves pompously or cruelly to the people. Instead they wish to be considered fathers, and by being like father
