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Culture series
The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks. The stories center on the Culture, a utopian society of humanoids, aliens, and very advanced artificial intelligences living in semi-anarchist habitats spread across the post-material-scarcity Milky Way galaxy. The main theme of the novels is the dilemmas that an idealistic hyperpower faces in dealing with civilisations that do not share its ideals, and whose behaviour it sometimes finds repulsive. In some of the stories, action takes place mainly in non-Culture environments, and the leading characters are often on the fringes of, or non-members of, the Culture, sometimes acting as agents of Culture plans to civilise the galaxy.
==The Culture==
(詳細はpost-scarcity economy where technology is advanced to such a degree that all production is automated,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-11-23 ) Link is to an archived copy of the site that Banks linked to on his (own website ).〕 society formed by various humanoid races and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years before the novels in the series. Since the majority of its biological population can have virtually anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the Culture is semi-anarchist.〔〔 Its members live mainly in spaceships and other off-planet constructs, because its founders wished to avoid the centralized political and corporate power-structures that planet-based economies foster.〔 Most of the planning and administration is done by Minds, very advanced AIs.〔
Although the Culture has more advanced technology and a more powerful economy than the vast majority of known civilizations, it is just one of the "Involved" civilizations that take an active part in galactic affairs. The Homomda are slightly more advanced〔 while the Morthanveld have a much larger population and economy.〔 Some civilizations that take no part in galactic politics are vastly more powerful, such as the Dra'Azon, whom the Culture are reluctant to antagonize despite the need to rescue a Mind stranded on a planet set aside by the Dra'Azon as a memorial, and the Behemothaurs, of whom little is known except the civilizations that meddle with them have a habit of disappearing.〔〔
Some other civilizations hold less favorable views of the Culture.〔 At the time of their war with the Culture, the Idirans and some of their allies regarded the control that the Minds exercised over the Culture as a form of idolatry.〔〔 The Homomda regard the Culture as idealistic and hyper-active.〔 Some members of the Culture have seceded and formed a similar but less activist civilization, the Zetetic Elench,〔 while others simply drop out temporarily or permanently.〔
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