WRIGHT: Just Kamon. Somehow we've never formed the habit of courtesy titles, Captain. Names, nicknames, and a few titles of function--as for instance, if Elis were conducting one of our meetings, we'd address him as Governor. SLADE: Oh. Pleasant, I should think. Our world, Kamon, is still divided in two parts. An ideological division. There is the Asian Empire of Jenga. Let me show you--the map-- DUNIN: Here. I grabbed it. And what a map! If only we could make such things! DOROTHY: In time, sugar. Takes mighty complex machinery to make such a map. SLADE: One of the things that must come on the next trip from Earth. Well--here is the Asian Empire. You can see the vastness of it, one land mass, almost all of a continent-- MUKERJI: Except my country. NORA STERN: Well, naturally, Jimmy-- MUKERJI: I tend to be sensitive on the point since we joined the Federation somewhat belatedly. SLADE: That's the Asian Empire. And there they believe, and have long believed, that individual man is nothing--an ant in a colony--the state is everything, a sole reason for existence. The state-- WRIGHT: Which exists only in the minds of individual men. SLADE: Ye-es.... For them the state takes the place of God, of reason, of ethics, of--Oh, it's be-all and end-all, so far as an individualist like myself can understand their doctrine. A hundred years ago this empire was two great states; they had the same doctrine then but called it by a less honest name, communism, derived from certain naïve social theories of about a hundred years earlier-- SPEARMAN: Naïve? SLADE: Before I went in for engineering, sir, I majored in history at McGill. With the help of a great deal of coffee, I even read _Das Kapital_. It is not logical even from its own dogmatic premises. Incidentally I think it can still be found in secondhand bookstores. SPEARMAN: As a matter of fact, when I left Earth, it was quite readily available in up-to-date editions from the Collectivist Press.