Village Egalliv

Once upon a time, there was a competitive village full of materials hard-worked for. The government at that time, Government Melissa, believed that people should only operate what they worked hard for, and nothing would be distributed evenly. So all the farmers worked for food, the blacksmiths worked for tools, the miners worked for gold, and so on. Everybody was competing and none of them wasted the slightest bit of time, since they needed as many materials as they could get.

Later in that time, Government Melissa aged. Her smooth skin wrinkled. Her eyes shrank. Her hair became as white as snow and she required a walking cane. Workers showed their consideration and rushed into her home with food, water, tools and touching objects. Melissa enjoyed their gifts but still died on a sad morning in bed. The village all dropped what they were doing and grieved over her death for a whole three days.

Government Ira was elected as the new government. Ira believed that the city should share equally and divide all of its materials among everybody. So they ate together and slept together as well, and all the things people worked hard to make were distributed evenly. Life was smooth for the first week until mischievous workers constructed a plan.

Hard-working workers who spent lots of time and energy working got way too little of what they should have had. The sluggish workers found that even without working, they still got their “fair” share. Hard-working workers learned from the others and they pigged around all day, too. So at supper in the dining hall that night, there was no food, not even a crumb. No one bothered to go to the well either to get water. So that night, people were dehydrated and starved. Tool-makers slacked as well, and no one could get their greedy hands on anything new.

Government Ira hosted a meeting at the town hall and told everybody to work as usual. But many were not impressed. The next day, it was better, only slightly. A few individuals who took Ira’s speech seriously made some food. However, it was never enough, and people still starved.

Ira realized that this was the wrong way to act as a government. He realized that no one truly trusted him anymore, so he handed his role to Melissa’s child, Cathryn, who acted as well as Melissa. So the people of the village lived happily ever after.