(urth) A Good Society

[John Smith]

Can any one think of a Wolfe novel or story in which
he portrays a good society?   

When I re-read  The Fifth Head of Cerberus, I realized
that on the first reading I had missed how brutal and
nasty the planet of Sainte. Croix is.  Urth and the
Whorl are also terrible places.    Stories like The
Death of Dr. Island have a cruel or indifferent
society in the background.

Wolfe doesn't seem to write about utopias.   But does
he ever show even a decent world?

Jack

Best wishes,

Jack