“Someone told me that there is no crime on Tranai.”
“None whatsoever.”
“And therefore no police force or courts, no judges, sheriffs, marshals, executioners, truant officers or government investigators. No prisons, reformatories or other places of detention.”
“We have no need of them,” Melith explained, “since we have no crime.”
“I have heard,” said Goodman, “that there is no poverty on Tranai.”