Maholia has developed a uniquely successful society by focusing on building sound relationships between people in all the spheres of life in which they interact, such as the neighbourhood, the workplace, the market place, and relations between citizens and government.

Though Maholia is fictional, its successful features are in almost all cases based on real-life success stories from around the world. Real-world research, commentary and descriptions of policies and practices are cited and discussed in readily accessible notes.

I have chosen to use the device of locating these policies and practices in one country and ‘mainstreaming’ them in order to convey the combined impact this might have on a whole society.

Maholia’s history – as a European ‘settler’ society with an original indigenous population – makes it most similar to countries like the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but the Maholian Way is just as relevant to other industrialised societies, and it also has lessons for the Third World.

To an unusual extent Maholians are happy and healthy, and there is a high level of equality and social connectedness. None are excluded from the good life the country offers, and as global citizens Maholians contribute substantially to the wider world. Maholia is an environmentally sustainable society, and in particular the challenge of climate change has been squarely met with an integrated set of solutions that are a natural part of the Maholian Way.