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The idleness would be rigorously impossible on this planet, the management system would penalize immediately the lazy person. No one escape to this rule4:. The privileges would simply not exist, as for termites. - He would participate to social tasks (three hours a day). - He would raise his children. This third activity seems to be essential for his stability. He would connect him to the "planetary collective soul". This aspect of the Ummits social life would need a definition of the "metaphysical structure" of each planet. Some texts of 1988 bring a lot of precision in this domain. But, as it a too vast subject, we keep us the right to deal with it in another book. The result is that the "collective psychism" would be overtake the "individual psychism". In the world of Huxley, the metaphysical anxiousness was treated with a drug, the soma, with no secondary effects. It would allow the individual to escape to all questions concerning his origins, the meaning of life or his future. The diseases would have eliminated with the progress of science. The approach of death would be announced by a rapid decrepitude. The soma was then administrated heavily, till unconsciousness. The Ummo formula is fairly different. The metaphysic world does exist and belong to the today's life of the inhabitants. Meditation seems to be their most important activity. When practicing that activity, it seems the inform this huge planetary brain, as if the behaved like human probes. The UMMO planet appears like a democratic model, strongly hierarchic, as a ant-colony. Some individuals would be selected with care, according to their intellectual capabilities to constitute the government. This one would involve two hundred persons. This elite of politicians would receive a high education in numerous matters. Among these two hundred people, four would be retained to constitute the central government, the 116 others would be some sort of parliament. It would take care that none of the tetrarques has no influence on the three others. Their mandate last four years. If that would be the case, he would be immediately destituted and replaced. The system would not work with elections, but it based on an evaluation system, considered as scientific and stable. The texts precise that during a long period of the History of the planet UMMO, during the last four centuries (in terrestrial time), the emphasis would have been put on social sciences, this means the art of living in society. 131 The main activities of the Ummit would be the following: - He would practice an activity, one could assimilate to meditation.