The chief character is on board a VOC vessel heading for the Dutch East Indies.
He is shipwrecked on Antangil, an island blessed with an astonishingly beautiful countryside and fauna.
A volcano serves as a lighthouse.
Hunting is the favourite pastime of the island’s inhabitants.
Antangil is a centralized modern state with a vast police force and army.
The unemployed are required to contribute to society by working in the mines.
There is no corruption. In the hotel and catering industry, all prices are the same and tips are prohibited.
The island’s twelve million inhabitants live in communal dwellings.
Ten of these form an administrative unit headed by a democratically elected leader.
All children receive primary education; apart from the usual curriculum, music and animal husbandry are also taught.
Children from the elite stay on in education for a further eighteen years, ending at university.