After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Identify the difference between reality and what you think you know.
• Understand why this book's use of fiction makes it more awesome than the rest.
• Describe what a utopia is as some fantastical dream and in real life.
• Explain what's similar and what's not about classical ideologies.
• Define politics, as mas it can be defined.
• Now define political science, because faraway galaxies have it, too.