Chapter 2
With the abolition of money and a gold-based currency as a medium of exchange (instead, there was a system of "value money" where one was given notes in direct proportion to one's goodness) crime was almost eliminated from the life of the city.
No one of the current generation could even remember when a crime such as mugging or armed robbery had taken place, although the history books were full of such deeds in past generations.
Because of these facts, when they found the man murdered beneath the walls of the Culture School, an obvious victim of robbery, the whole city was enraged. Men and women gave up their spare time in a hunt for the culprit who had committed the most heinous deed in their memory. At night, the clear, germ-free atmosphere of the city (controlled by the geo
