"I want to emphasize that this isn't really fantasy or SF. I guess it could be called Historical Fiction (except it's the history of an imaginary country). It is also semi-utopian fiction discussing ideas that might be found in works like Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Aldous Huxley's Island as well as any number of historians and social critics. I am striving to present a country of people as ornery and difficult as any other that stumble into a way of life I think is an improvement on existing arrangements but w/o (hopefully) too outrageous luck or exceptionally wise and prescient leaders (meaning that leaders acting in the 1890s or 1930s can't be expected to know what someone in the 2020s might know either how history works out of new developments in science or technology)"