SLADE: Oh. Pleasant, I should think. Our world, Kamon, is still divided in two parts. An ideological division. There is the Asian Empire of Jenga. Let me show you—the map—
DUNIN: Here. I grabbed it. And what a map! If only we could make such things!
DOROTHY: In time, sugar. Takes mighty complex machinery to make such a map.
SLADE: One of the things that must come on the next trip from Earth. Well—here is the Asian Empire. You can see the vastness of it, one land mass, almost all of a continent—
MUKERJI: Except my country.
NORA STERN: Well, naturally, Jimmy—
MUKERJI: I tend to be sensitive on the point since we joined the Federation somewhat belatedly.
SLADE: That's the Asian Empire. And there they believe, and have long believed, that individual man is nothing—an ant in a colony—the state is everything, a sole reason for existence. The state—
WRIGHT: Which exists only in the minds of individual men.
SLADE: Ye-es.... For them the state takes the place of God, of reason, of ethics, of—Oh, it's be-all and end-all, so far as an individualist like myself can understand their doctrine. A hundred years ago this empire was two great states; they had the same doctrine then but called it by a less honest name, communism, derived from certain naïve social theories of about a hundred years earlier—