No idea like private property. Just everyone doing what they're supposed to.
Boring, but vaguely pleasant.
t.
> Howdy all -
>
> I wanted to follow on Greg's comments about Loskalm.
> I've long had a
> soft spot for the place - a nice example of
> non-dystopian utopia.
> However, I think the mistake folk are having is
> assuming that it is
> feudal - which it clearly is not. Instead, Loskalm
> under the Ban was a
> Golden Age - a time of perfection without external
> conflict.
>
> The Loskalmi scholar Andarlane wrote that the Ban
> was a gift of
> Irensavel which allowed men to partially transcend
> the corrupt
> material world of the evil demiurge Malkion.
> According to his
> writings, under the Ban Loskalm achieved perfect
> laws, perfect harmony
> and perfect justice, and it has been returned to the
> corrupt world so
> that the demiurge might be defeated and that all men
> might be shown
> the path to Solace and Joy.
>
> Fwiw, some good literary models for Loskalm are
> Tommaso
> Campanella's "The City of the Sun" (1623), Roger
> Bacon's "The New
> Atlantis" (1626) or the "Liber Concordiae Novi ac
> Veteris Testamenti"
> of Joachim of Fiore (c 1200). Run with the
> possibilities - more than
> its meritocracy, Loskalm is a millenia utopia now
> placed in conflict
> with the rest of the world.
>
> Jeff
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