A satirical travelogue describes an experimental island society where a small privileged minority lives in luxury while tens of thousands of numbered laborers are reduced to calibrated work routines. Workers reside in crowded rooms, receive three sustaining pills daily, wear numbered paper garments, and are denied families, courts, and much education; elites occupy palaces, mint oversized currency, and import lavish foods. Control is maintained through psychological training and plans to breed compliant labor, and the narrator inspects the institutions that enforce this engineered social order.