Utopia blog

The Utopian society me and my group created for the Utopian society project was called the Gouda Ghetto. Our society was completely based around genetically modified plants that instead of growing wood or fruit grow cheese. The cheese is used for everything from eating to building and has allowed our society to rise above its neighbors to become a utopia. It is isolated from the rest of the world by the Swiss Sea and the montery jack mountains, and has grown a powerful military to defend itself with. Cheese has even become part of the society’s culture, and is used to define social classes.

One of the problems we faced while creating our society was if we would have other food sources outside of cheese. We eventually decided that we would also have vegetable, poultry, and cattle farms along with our farms for growing out modified cheese plants. This way we could widen our ability to produce food in one source failed, and increase our ability to trade with other societies. Another problem we faced was what other than cheese we would utilize as building materials. Eventually we decided we could mine and trade for various metals to strengthen our structures and build our military weapons out of. The final major problem we faced was how to keep the cheese that our buildings were made of from rotting. We decided that we would build tubes within the cheese buildings that contain Freon, and the climate of the region we live in stayed at a relatively low temperature all year round. We also used a sealant on the cheese that kept air from flowing in and out of it freely.

            My group and I also had focus questions about our military and food production. We decided to have a strong military that we would use only for the defense of our society. All of our citizens own and are trained to use weapons in case we are attacked by a neighboring country. We found that it was very easy to cover our second focus question about food production. Our society contains many farms that grow a variety of foods, primarily the modified cheese plants. We have an entire class in society devoted to working on farms, which make up the majority of our economy.