Protected by American guards, life here is one of indolent and decadent luxury, where anything goes - 'as long as you don't infringe on the property of the rest of Utopia's residents'. Utopia, the isolated colony that the rich created on the North Coast to protect themselves from the sea of angry poverty outside, and that now fences in everything they might want. What remains is an upper class that remains in complete control over the economy, and the vast majority that lives at the lowest of subsistence levels. The situation in Egypt is a different one: here a society already polarized between haves and have-nots is destroyed when the middle-class evaporates. The world has changed, primarily because petroleum-based products - specifically oil - have been replaced by the synthetic 'biroil', formulated in 2010, and so the oil-producing countries of the Middle East (among others) are no longer able to rake in the easy cash and have been reduced to peripheral states again. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. I defy anyone not to read it in one sitting.' - Sholto Byrnes, Independent on Sunday (.) Far more convincing a depiction of a nightmarish future even than A Clockwork Orange, Utopia is a miniature masterpiece.

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