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The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words u ( not ) and t pos ( place ), with the topographical suffix - e a, hence outope a (Latinized as Utopia), no-place land. It also contains a pun, however, because Utopia could also be the Latinization of eutope a, good-place land, which uses the Greek prefix eu, good, instead of . One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable. Despite modern connotations of the word utopia, it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own perfect society. Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary land's unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe.

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