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Utopia first appeared in a book by Sir Thomas More in 1516, but it has come to mean a place of perfection, where human beings live in a community of order, peace, and abundance.

The idea came from Plato's Republic. Some particular characteristics are the absence of laws and lawyers, equality, pacifism and tolerance of religions.
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