Utopia[1] is a name for an imaginarycommunity orsociety with a perfect system of laws and politics.[2]
Sir Thomas More invented the word for his 1516 bookUtopia. The book was about a fictionalisland in the southernAtlantic Ocean, off the coast ofBrazil. The word has been used to describe both a perfect society, and societies inliterature. A related idea isdystopia, the opposite of a dystopia.
There have been many utopias based on politics, economics, religion, ecology. Some of these have been propagated in books and pamphlets, some as actual communities. In practice, attempts to create utopias seem doomed, as good intentions run against problems. Most of the literary utopias are actuallysatires of existing societies. There were several attempts to create such perfect societies (they did not work). The word utopia can also refer to a society of such an attempt.
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