Posted by Mike Berro on February 05, 1997 at 10:18:14:
In Reply to: Source for Yipton? posted by Parsifal Pankarow on February 04, 1997 at 22:52:59:
Vance served in the U.S. Merchant Marines in the Pacific, so it's not unlikely he visited at least some of the places you mentioned.
The original model for such a society might be ancient Sparta, where the bulk of the population served the elite. Unfortunately, such a societal arrangement historically seems the norm.