Machinery is forbidden there because it once sparked a civil war.
Its Unborn select their parents. Its Musical Banks produce currency which is venerated but unused. Machinery is forbidden there because it once sparked a civil war. It is ruled by so-called philosophers and prophets, whom the narrator sees as faddists and fanatics. Such is the setting, FTP, of what Samuel Butler novel about a utopia whose name is an anagram of "nowhere"?
Its Unborn select their parents. Its Musical Banks produce currency which is venerated but unused.
{Erewhon}