Famous and Classic Science Fiction Novel
The first half or so is more or less a travelogue into this future society as people conveniently explain to him how everything works, and the second half where the battle lines are drawn and battle engaged. Rousseau describes some entertaining ray-gun technology based upon new colors in the visible spectrum, and ambitious architecture in the soulless-megalith sense. Rousseau appears to be operating from the base premise that a goverment and judiciary who cannot be held accountable by the population they govern will never succumb to the corrupting influences of unlimited and unimpeachable power as long as they are "his" people, as in Christians. It shows a frankly bewildering level of naiveté.