Mass immigration had seen large increases in both costs and injustices. The generosity that was shown to the newly arrived accrued at the expense of the native population of Utopia.

Yet many Enrichers showed few signs of gratitude. Instead many of them turned anti-social or became involved in criminal behaviour. The number of drug-related crimes, rapes, HIV-infections, physical assaults, robbery and levels of vandalism all increased sharply.

Discontent began to surface among the Utopians.

In response to the growing levels of discontent the authorities decided they had to act, but how? Actually addressing the problems caused by the Enrichers was out of the question ­ what would the World think of them? Therefore another device was required. They launched a propaganda offensive to change public opinion.

The establishment was fully conversant with the fundamentals of propaganda: big lies are more easily believed than small ones, and lies should be repeated, constantly.

One also had to filter the information that reached the public, to create the desired image of the world.

Above all, it was important to exploit the funcion av legitimizing, laying in the access to the public arena for debate.

The media was given strict orders not to report things that ran contrary to the establishment's line. Journalists on radio and television only touched on immigration under the tightest of guidelines. The Utopian people were to be desinformed:

Crimes committed by the Enrichers were hushed-up. If their crimes were such they could not be kept secret, the media never reported the ethnicity of those responsible.

Crimes committed by Utopians, on the other hand, were given plenty of attention and the media were eager to stress that those responsible were Utopian.

It came to a point that even when the perpetrator was an Enricher the media tried to make it look as if criminal was a Utopian. This was achieved easily enough by describing the perpetrator as "a Utopian citizen" (one has to remember that Utopian citizenship was virtually handed out freely as the Enrichers arrived).

In addition the law made some types of action criminal if committed by a Utopian, but the same action carried out by an Enricher was not criminal. Making various signs, gestures or words of abuse belonged to this category. The concept was called "racism". The police were given orders to prioritise racist crimes. The media, however, continued to report incidents involving Enrichers, much to the chagrin of the elite and the establishment ­ such stories were big news in Utopia.

The concept of racism soon sprouted several subcategories, such as 'cultural racism', 'everyday-racism', and 'silent racism'. In this way the concept expanded to include such heinous crimes as hostile glances or cold intonation from Utopians. Indeed anything that a Utopian did which might in any way cause an Enricher to feel uncomfortable was 'racist'.

In the great campaign to hoodwink the Utopian people the media played its part fully. The high unemployment rate among Enrichers, their rates of sick leave, early retirement, social security dependence and defraudment of the system were all taboo subjects. In a later stage the media was to change horses. The reality was recognized, but was inevitably furnished with an excuse, an explanation.

The Enrichers would gladly support themselves through honest work, was the new official line, and in addition they were mostly well educated. The reason for their high dependence on the state was due to discrimination within Utopian society. Enrichers had not been able to get a work. So the problem had been the native Utopians all along ­ obvious really. This excuse was also widely used to explain the numbers of criminals from Enricher backgrounds. It was true that young Enrichers often did commit crime, however, this was due to the fact that they were "vulnerable", which of course was Utopian society's fault.

Soon the establishment came to the brilliant conclusion that if the bigger the lie the better it worked, why not turn the whole World on its head? Therefore before long the state was spouting some of the most fanciful fairy stories heard since the days of the Grimm Brothers. It was stated that Enrichers had been responsible for creating the wealth of Utopia, and that they were better workers than Utopians. To cap it all, the state pronounced that the country was in immediate need of more immigration in order to be able to survive economically. The real problem was that there were too few immigrants!

The media constantly repeated the great lie - the size of the immigrant population in Utopia was too small. Phrases like 'closed borders' and 'Fortress Middletopia' were widely used in the propaganda offensive.

Once in a while opinion polls, which showed that the majority of Utopians (at least those aspiring to the elite, with high levels of education) were in favour of continued immigration, were announced.

In reality, however, immigration was extensive, its economical affects devastating and an indisputable majority saw immigration as something negative.

All this was well known to the authorities in Utopia and as a result new campaigns were constantly launched. Formally this propaganda was aimed against the horrors of acism, in practice the target was the Utopians' fears concerning the burial of their welfare state and democracy.

The campaign was carried out by all available means.

- This included the entire media machine - TV, radio and newspapers.

- The primary campaign was backed up with special events, such as concerts, often with the help of popular musicians and other famous people.

- In schools children were continuously reminded of the official line.

- Libraries and museums were also recruited, just like the various authorities dealing with the Enrichers - the Immigration Authority, Integration Authority, and Discrimination Ombudsman etc.

- The church, the Unions and numerous non-profit making organizations were also mobilized for the campaign.

- Special years against acism were proclaimed; conferences were held and appeals against acism were made; essay competitions were arranged; and prizes for fighting acism were given.

- Even the Utopian workers traditional parade on May Day was cancelled, in favour of a demonstration against acism.

- All parties agreed that the fight against racism had the highest priority of all political questions. In all debates covered by the media whenever racism was raised all voices were agreed, all were one.

In addition to the massive propaganda campaign anybody who had the courage to raise a dissenting voice was dealt with swiftly. Individuals were expelled from political parties, others lost their jobs ­ the message soon hit home.

Critics knew they had plenty of support outside the establishment, but struggled with the language of the new debate. The line between what one could say and what was considered taboo was blurred ­ critics were constantly on the back foot frantically trying to adjust the wording of their comments.

A CENTRAL THEME used to attack critics was to present them as a morally suspect and even dangerous group. Though never stated openly, it was constantly suggested that association with such groups and individuals was to be tainted yourself.

As a result of the success of the establishments media campaign critics found themselves working underground, remaining faceless and nameless. Their impact on the Utopian media was correspondingly small.

Another reason behind the failure of the critics to win a hearing was the activities of the governmental initiated terrorist group ADA ("Anti-Democratic Action"). ADA's campaign made many Utopians afraid to come forward, even though they felt strongly on the subject.