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A post-apocalyptic novel.
The world has nearly self-destructed due to numerous wars, environmental disasters, cataclysmic events, and social upheaval.
A small group of dedicated men and women initiates a social experiment to eliminate all of the institutions, philosophies, and bad behavior in general that it believes contributed to the downfall of other societies.
Within three centuries; war, crime, greed, vanity, poverty, hunger, inequality, and prejudice have been eradicated.
However, they are not the only things that have disappeared. The institution of marriage, the family unit concept, long-term intimate relationships, and religion no longer exist.