"You come from a couple of centuries ago," he said.
"Is it two centuries, or a thousand years?" asked I.
"I have been looking at your clothes; you don't mind, do you? they indicate the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century."
"You have guessed right," said I; "and what year are you?"
"We count from the last Constitution which was voted ninety-three years ago, in 2011 of your reckoning. So we call the present year 93."
"So you have given up the old Constitution," I said with a touch of sentiment in my voice.
"Yes, it had to be changed when we advanced to where we are now in methods of manufacture and distribution of profits."
"Can you give your methods a name?"
"You used to call it Collectivism; we call it Solidarity."
"You mean to say you actually practise Collectivism!"