You're thinking of Greg Egan's idea of "Stateless", the illegal biotech'ed island. In that story, the technology and the island defends egalitarian principles a

You're thinking of Greg Egan's idea of "Stateless", the illegal biotech'ed island. In that story, the technology and the island defends egalitarian principles and organized 'no-ruler-ship' (anarchy). I certainly think anarchy could work, if the underlying technological stuffs were the enforcers of equality. *The book is called "Distress", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_(novel)