Owen Gregory's Meccania is a dystopian novel published in 1918, a direct response to the rise of German militarism and totalitarianism during World War I. Functioning as a "negative utopia" or a critical satire, it predates and shares thematic DNA with later classics like Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984. The narrative is presented as the report of a traveler from a fictional, freedom-loving nation who visits the formidable state of Meccania. He discovers a society that is the antithesis of his own: a perfectly ordered, hyper-efficient, and terrifyingly regimented police state. Every aspect of life in Meccania is controlled by an all-powerful, oligarchic government known as the "State." Citizens are classified by a rigid caste system, their careers and even their personal lives dictated from birth. The state employs pervasive surveillance, a powerful secret police, and indoctrination through a state-controlled educational system to maintain absolute control. Individuality, creativity, and personal freedom are systematically suppressed in the name of national efficiency and power. The traveler witnesses the soulless conformity of the people, the worship of the military, and the state's relentless drive for expansion. Meccania serves as a stark warning against the dangers of sacrificing liberty for order and the dehumanizing potential of the modern bureaucratic state, offering a chillingly prescient critique of totalitarianism in the 20th century.

Table of Contents:

• Meccania, the Super-State. Part 1

• Meccania, the Super-State. Part 2

• Meccania, the Super-State. Part 3

• Meccania, the Super-State. Part 4