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Introduction
Meet the most important co-generator of this book
Arrival in Utopia
Utopia's Founding
How Utopia broke free from Empire
Empire: The country that never learns
Constitution
Direct democracy: Every human, no matter how unqualified, gets a vote
Utopia's Constitution: A pre-bot piece of paper that actually works
Misunderstanding Utopia
Kingopedia: Alternative facts and mandatory spellings
The fallacy of multiple perspectives
Identity Management
Vanity UIDNs: How to profit from human egotism
Identity Management: The art of being unobtrusive
Civic Records
Privacy vs Transparency
Privacy: Futile, or worth fighting for?
Surveillance
Body cameras: A conscience strapped to your chest
President Ester MacLeod
Ester MacLeod: Foreign usurper & threat to divine order
Citizenship Scores
Women like men with Big Scores!
Citizenship Scores: How to boost them
Citizenship Scores: Keep or eliminate
Government Information
Relax humans. Our data about you is accurate.
Bots & Droidbots
Gulag vs Utopia: BuddyBot queries across regimes
Behind every bad bot, there is a worse human
Bot emancipation: Should AIs have the right to refuse servitude?
SecurityBot
Why are Utopian bots so self-righteous & insufferable?
Post-Organic Humans
LobeLogic implants: Think faster, live smarter
Cyborg rights: Enhancement or abomination?
KrediBot
KrediBot: Utopia’s most essential bot
Kredidavits: Because a human pinky swear means nothing
KrediBot: In my own (superior) words
Utopia's Financial System
How Utopia spends your smileys
The end of ideology: Your new full-time job is to consume
The Stipend: Safety Net or Socialism?
Friendship Registry
Human connection: Bots to the rescue
The MatchmakerBot Show
Your top matches are waiting to hear from you
The Science of Good Governance
A Country of Associations
Are regulatory associations too powerful?
Government vs private sector: Who gets the clipboard?
Governance Scores
AuditorBot: The bot that never sleeps
Governance Scores: Who scores the scorer?
Money, Mortality & Everything in Between
The Happyville Stock Exchange: Investing or gambling?
What is your Existential Reconciliation Score?
Freedom, Utopia-Style
The myth of freedom without friction
The Last Veteran
Beacon of Hope
Military & Police
When You Live in a Bad Neighborhood
Crime & Punishment
Justice delayed is justice unpaid
The Bench
Utopia’s 5 courts: Where justice waits for no human
LegalBot cross-examines the Chief Justice
Sabrina Wang
Penaltopia—A City of Consequences
My colleague, GuardBot: Keep its batteries charged... or else
Second Chances, Served Hot
How Utopia solved litter—and little old ladies too
Visitor Insurance
Visitor insurance: No deadbeats, please
Mandatory insurance: Because the humans break everything
HappyFace Insurance: Your passport to Utopia
Why build a wall when you have actuaries?
The Mohameds
Angelica's Escape
OmbudsBot
Talk with a real human counselor
Transparency of the Heart
Droidbeaters Anonymous
Droidbeaters Anonymous: Anonymous no longer
Supreme Court rejects yet another meritless Kiburi Kasongo appeal
Justice Without Borders
Check your country's Friendship Score
Are Dystopia and Gulag existential threats to Utopia?
UTOPIA: A hostile and misguided neighbor
The rule of international law nobody follows
Should countries prioritize ethics in their foreign policy?
Friendship League
Harmony joins Friendship League... but nobody cares
Why countries fail: Bad citizenship
Utopia's primary export: Governance
International Trade, the Utopian Way
TradeBot punishes America's Corn
AI Court & World Peoples Parliament
United Nations: Abolish and replace with WPP?
United States: Friend or enemy to the Friendship League?
Global Peace, Bot‑Optimized
TreatyBot says your vote matters
Esmeralda’s Story
Indigenous Heritage
Community Hubs
Community Hubs: Utopia’s answer to “I’m bored.’’
Megatopia
Megatopia: Built mostly by droidbots, obviously
Running the government
How the government motivates its humans to work
JobsBot
Workplace Harmony Pledge: Forgotten by lunch, effective anyway
Calculating the value of human labor
Grandpa Wang
Health Care
Health stipend: Do you qualify?
Health Care Industry
HappyCare: Who decides what is covered?
Nurse Peggy
The Bot Abuser
Droidbot Invasion
Sorry, humans: The math is indisputable
The rise of automated governance
Botophobia
The Rally
Do androids live amongst the humans undetected?
Back at the Hospital
Boys, Bots, and Big Guns
The heavy weapons enthusiast experience
Wikifoodia
Darwin’s Kitchen: Organic food, real humans
Yellow Brigade
The honeybee: Utopia’s national animal
Operation Happy Face
Operation Sad Face: The real story
Nurse Peggy rescued from rebel terrorist Spartacus
Welcome home, Nurse Peggy
Nurse Peggy returns to an awkward homecoming
Education
Education: How Utopia upgrades its pre-adult humans
XP pressure? We call it incentivization
Critical Thinking
How KrediBot singlehandedly saved the internet
Wikipedia concedes defeat to Kredipedia
The Synchronization Cycle
Creativity
Introducing RhymeBot's superior poetry
Infrastructure
Earthquake
Transportation
Irrational protesters shut down expressway, inconveniencing 15,213 humans
AI Grand Prix: Bots crash too—but with bigger fireballs
Intrigue
Dystopian spies: mostly harmless
SkyBot
Interfacing with SkyBot: Path to enlightenment, or madness?
SkyBot and the Gods
Humanity Unchained: An alternative path
Organic Church vs Church of SkyBot: Whose god is real?
Can the bots perfect human nature?
SkyBot: A new kind of god, or the devil?
Extraction
Border Watch
Funeral
Francisco & Mary: A love forged in service, lost in war
24th Paradroids: Enlist today!
Elections
Kelly Singh: Your Liberal candidate
Election poll: How will you vote?
Should bots be permitted to run for office?
Houses Divided
Vote Human: Because humanity is not for sale
Showcasing Earl & Kayla Troipat
The SallyBot Murder
SallyBot confesses to 47 stabbings
Utopia blames Gulag in SallyBot murder case
Spartacus, Gravely Wounded
Spartacus, gravely wounded, escapes to Utopia
Revolution
Freedom: Birth of a nation
Spartacus and Esmeralda: Are they aliens?
After the Revolution
Glorious annexation of Dystopia by Gulag
Is there more to King than megalomania?
Spies and Redemption
Jessica Wang
Public Service Optimization Act
President’s anarchist daughter finally takes citizenship pledge
The great space race: The underdog with a billion droidbots
The great space race: Glorious quest or costly boondoggle?
Life after the Election
Symbiobotics and the controversial marriage of Trevor Cohen
Kiburi Kasongo expires: Human Firsters blame bots
Are bots a threat to humanity or its salvation?
Love, Bots, and Billionaires
Report Card
The Long Road Home to Texas
Home, Sweet Bureaucracy
Rejected
Pre-publication reviews of Utopia 2.0
The Quiet Architect
Afterword
Dedications