Yes, that's where I got the idea. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons it wouldn't work when attempted in a real world culture, let alone the resistance from gett

Yes, that's where I got the idea. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons it wouldn't work when attempted in a real world culture, let alone the resistance from getting laws about it passed. Such lovely and fun ideas in that trilogy! Second IMHO only to the Culture novels in terms of semi-realistic deep social world building.