Among the Kosekin capital punishment is imprisonment amid the greatest splendor, where the prisoner is treated like a king, and has many palaces and great retinues; for that which we consider the highest they regard as the lowest, and with them the chief post of honor is what we would call the lowest menial office.

Of course, among such a people, any suffering from want is unknown, except when it is voluntary.

The pauper class, with all their great privileges, have this restriction, that they are forced to receive enough for food and clothing.

Some, indeed, manage by living in out-of-the-way places to deprive themselves of these, and have been known to die of starvation; but this is regarded as dishonorable, as taking an undue advantage of a great position, and where it can be proved, the children and relatives of the offender are severely punished according to the Kosekin fashion.
State politics here move, like individual affairs, upon the great principle of contempt for earthly things.

The state is willing to destroy itself for the good of other states; but as other states are in the same position, nothing can result.