To say that such a thing is "no significant oppression" is a contentious statement at best. The world government had imposed a two-children-per-family populatio

To say that such a thing is "no significant oppression" is a contentious statement at best. The world government had imposed a two-children-per-family population-control policy, imposed on many members of society against their will, against religious objections. This is visited in the book(s), though not for overly long. Also, the young child has a government monitoring device implanted on his neck at the beginning of the book. That's pretty creepy. I suppose that if you're just saying that the oppression is not as gratuitous as 1984 or whatever, that's true. (The secret genetic engineering experiments to make people extra intelligent but then give them OCD to keep them under control is a later book, it's true.)