In the book Utopia, the land of Utopia is a true Commonwealth where there is no private property or financial classes. Utopia is a fictional country with a society in which everything is shared equally and there is no want. In Utopia, "among [Utopians] virtue has its reward, but everything is shared equally and all men live in abundance" (More 1.38). By creating a place without money or private property, More undermines the institutions of Tudor England by tackling the problem of social injustices linked to private property (Brayton). Stevenson says: “With radical simplicity, utopians avoid evils. of Europe: all private property is abolished. The piquant descriptions of crime, poverty, unemployment, ostentatious luxury and idleness in Book I give way in Book II to Hythloday's eulogy of a country that is literally a "Commonwealth ", where there are neither beggars, nor gentlemen, nor money. (Stevenson). The main tension in the book Utopia comes from disagreement over anything to do with private property (Phillips). In Utopia, there are many well-thought-out solutions to problems like taxation, food shortages, marriage stability, religious tolerance, and greed. (Bender). Primary education is provided for everyone. Additionally, every citizen must work on the land for at least two years to avoid food shortages (Forward). Utopians only need money for emergencies like war, because they can take whatever they need from stores at will. They even use gold to make their chamber pots (Forward). Houston says: “Utopia is organized entirely along rational lines: there is an absence of sin; the children are raised together; a system of slavery works; and one city is exactly the same as another, so the utopian is everywhere...... middle of paper ...... Web. January 13, 2014.Houston, Chloe. "Utopia, dystopia or anti-utopia? Gulliver's travels and the utopian mode of discourse." Utopian Studies 18.3 (2007): 425+. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 13, 2014More, Thomas. Utopia. New Haven: Yale UP, 1964. Print. Phillips, Joshua. “Staking Claims to Utopia: Thomas More, Fiction, and Intellectual Property.” Material culture and cultural materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. Curtis Perry. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001. 111-138. Rep. in Literary Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Flight. 140. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 13, 2014.Stevenson, Kay Gilliland. “Utopia: Overview.” Reference guide to English literature. Ed. DL Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 13. 2014.