Essay/Term paper: Create a society

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Essays

Life On Planet Fuji

My name is Christi. I was born February 17, 1999. And I know I have been separated from my immediate family and selected to begin a new society on planet Fuji. I, along with four other children, was chosen to develop our new society into something livable. Our goal is a peaceful cohesive environment. I realize the opportunity I have to continue humanity is greater than mourning any losses; however, I will never forget the life I left behind. I have already shed many emotional tears for the loss of my mother, father and siblings. The memories I have will no doubt guide me into the future.

My directive, along with four others, is to develop a social system and incorporate all the colonists into this new society. I"ve met the other individuals as we were chosen to awaken first to plan and present our ideas to the colonists. We estimate several days to prepare a presentation and conduct a "town hall" type meeting. Our most critical task is to convince all that a democracy is the best option we have to survive. We all must feel included in what happens, else we stand the likelihood of a revolt. We have history to tell us where to go and what is right. We have been chronicled, by memory infusion, with all that has happened in societies past and know what we have to do to achieve an ideal society.

Government

The five of us have already convened to discuss our society and where to start first. It is our intent to begin hierarchically with government, the ruling body for our society. Do we define roles and duties and conduct elections to fill these positions? Or, do we ourselves fill them? We have chosen to take the first route and conduct elections to appoint a minimal governing body. In order to paint a picture of ideal candidates we"ve chosen examples from history of successful leaders and will compare them with not so successful ones. Here we hope to define the characteristics involved in developing a leader for our society. The presentation will be in a slide format and viewed by all colonists. In addition to this leader or government head, there will need to be a legislative body in order to carry out all bills voted on and passed into law. This legislative body will be responsible for policing those individuals who choose to disrupt the law and create strife. All criminals will be dealt with immediately by the judicial body of government who in turn will enforce the law by sentencing time for various offenses. Terms will be determined by the offense. All violators will be punishable by serving these terms in prison. In turn they will serve as waste management personnel for our society here on Fuji.

Economics

Our next goal is to develop a means of commerce for the exchange of goods and services. In order for the society to prosper and grow it is imperative that all colonists are assigned a trade or craft that best suits them. They in turn will become proficient at producing the product or service and selling to all of society. Legislation will restrict pricing to a moderate amount for affordability to all households. No doubt competition will also provide for pricing control.

A social services branch of society will develop a means for caring for the injured or ill who are temporarily or no longer able to produce or provide a service for the society. This social services branch will have controls in place to assess the validity of any claims presented against working and be able to act on false claims. Additionally, this branch will create a task force to investigate each claim owner to assess characteristics for other work in which to subsidize their living.

An agricultural branch will be assigned the task of developing a process for cultivating vegetation and mass producing for society"s food consumption. This branch will also maintain restrictions on hunting in order to preserve the different species present on Fuji. Additionally, all meats found to be of good nutritional content will be cultivated and bred for mass production and consumption.

A central bank will be established to handle any requests for financial needs. The bank will be funded by money produced using the ship"s computer and printing devices. The legislative body of our government will control all bank funding. Different colors and symbols, which would be impossible to reproduce, will denote the values associated with each bill. Each colonist or household will sign a loan for an initial allotment of money to get started with. Repayment of the loan will begin after the sale of their first product or service rendered.

Religion

In the same vein as our government, our religion will also be a democracy. Everyone will be free to follow and practice his or her own religious beliefs. Society is and will always be free to choose which faith they practice. No persecution will be tolerated. And any person found guilty of anti-society cult activity will be punished by government.

Education

All materials sent with the first 2500 colonists will be preserved and duplicated to continue the educational process. Educators / teachers will be hired for schools which will mirror the education system for the past few centuries. The children produced as a result of our new society will undoubtedly suffer a great loss from the lack of influence elder members might have. They will only hear what life was like on earth, and it"s history, from books and stories shared among the original 2500 colonists. Therefor, I wish to develop a mentoring/outreach program to help people not only coping with this massive change, but to help them with their own problems. Education will focus on developing our initial colonists into their profession or trade. Eventually, as our society procreates, we will begin to develop children"s educational programs.

Family

The colonists will have extended family consisting of friends where "Family" will revolve around social gatherings. True family will not exist for quiet some time…until people marry and begin to have children. Family is the basis for modeling people into who they become in society. Our outreach program will conduct monthly meetings regarding family issues for those couples who plan to marry and build a family.

In conclusion, our goal is for a peaceful and prosperous society. In order to foster prosperity there must be competition. As individuals learn their craft or trade their demands must be recognized for all of society to benefit. Banking for example will eventually consist of several financial institutions competing for its market share. This same competition will exist in all facets of commerce.

For a peaceful society to exist we must enforce our laws and agree to abide by them. We must not forget from where we came. We must remember this is not a unique experience, in fact in some ways it is similar to how society in the U.S. evolved. The basis for this paper is largely taken from our current society. It seems we have evolved the best way we can. Why change something that has proven to be most effective?