The main purpose of Utopian economy is to "give each person as much time from physical drudgery as the needs of the community will allow, so that he can cultivate his mind - which they regard as the secret of happiness". 6 As the people of Utopia have no obligation for more land, the same applies to Utopia. On the island there exists thirty-four small towns, each town having fixed boundaries, and no town possessing "the slightest wish to extend its boundaries for they do not regard their land as property but as soil they've got to cultivate". 7 Whereas in other societies, kings are "far more anxious, by hook or crook, to acquire new kingdoms than to govern their existing ones properly"8. Employment in Utopia is universal. "There's one job they all do, irrespective of sex, and that's farming" 9: as a result everyone in Utopia has work; consequently there are no beggars, thieves or other ill-effects related to unemployment. In other societies, the poor merely grow poorer because they cannot afford the basic necessities to continue in their work. For example, the wool industry; "the price of wool has risen so steeply that your poorer weavers simply can't afford to buy it, which means a lot more people thrown out of work". 10 In Utopia, this issue is almost nonexistent since "when the head of a household needs anything for himself or his family, he just goes to one of these shops and asks for it. And whatever he asks for, he's allowed to take away without any sort of payment, either in money or kind". 11 According to Raphael Nonsenso, "essential conditions for a healthy society was equal distribution of goods".12 This mindset was something only found in Utopia. Besides the economic differences found between books one and two there are many other differences within the pages.
Book two of Thomas More's Utopia corrects many social difficulties faced in book one. The Utopian government represents one of the most well structured government hierarchies in its time.
