Funland

My 10yo unschooled niece, Emma, has a vision of a wonderful place to live. It's called "Funland." She dictated the following description to me and asked me to share it with you.

Instead of vegetables and fruits being healthy, it's the opposite way around, with the not-as-healthy stuff being more healthy than the healthy stuff.

There are no allergies of any kind at all. Unless somebody deserves it. Like, when people get in the animals' faces so the pets don't have any time to do anything, then they will get allergies.

People learn by unschooling; there's no school at all.

There is music and happiness all the time. Any kind of music – the people get to choose - and you only hear the kind of music that you want to hear. Rooms and areas can be soundproofed for people who want quiet time.

There would be no bullying and no rules like "no hugging" and stuff like that.

Things only cost $1 or less even though it was like a diamond or something, and nobody was poor. Food was free and nobody was homeless. Or if people were homeless they would at least have cooking places like soup kitchens to help them.

Government would give us money instead of us giving them money. Government would print up the money and hand it out. People would only work because they love to, and then when they have their own stuff to trade or money from selling stuff, they would get less money from the government. And the government could have all the money he wanted because he could make it himself.

The government is a king or queen. The king or queen is chosen because they are nice, by election and from a test that would show how good he or she would be at the job. As soon as someone gets the job, a magic spell takes hold that makes them be nice and not greedy, but the spell is just in case the other stuff wasn't enough.

People with $500 would be rich, because they'd be able to buy so much stuff. Just because stuff is cheap doesn't mean it's bad.

Animals could talk. They would tell us what they wanted and what they didn't. And then we could understand if they wanted to do something or not, like if they wanted to stay inside and play or if they have to go the bathroom.

It would be kind of like the future there, so there would be hovering cars and mini-trains that you could ride on to get places. Instead of scooters, they'd all be either motor scooters or hover scooters. Teleporters would let you be somewhere in one second.

Emma's house would be a big huge mansion, and houses would only be $1. There would be pools and hot tubs and skating rinks and ice skating rinks. If they had a wishing well, when they put a coin in it, the wish would come true. It would only be one penny. The movie area would be like a movie theater.

Her bedroom would have a TV, and her bed could move around so she wouldn't have to get up. There would be a big porch outside her room with a nice view. The room would have a guest bed so she could have friends or sister stay there sometimes. She'd have a people mover that went through a wall and to all parts of the house. The kitchen would have food at all times, and she could have food in her room whenever she wanted to. There would be secret room under the stairs or something that would be only for her best friends.

Her parents' room would be a bigger room, obviously, and it would have the same kind of bed and TV as in her room. The beds would be adjustable, go up and down, with a massager built in. And the room would have a couch and whatever they wanted, and all the rooms could be divided in half so you could have your privacy, such as when a guest is over or you just want to be separate.

The yard would be a nice, big yard, especially if they had an animal or pet. It would have big toys in it, including a trampoline—the big kind—and a swing set. And there would be a tree with perfect branches for climbing, and there would be a tire swing on it and a tree house in it. An awesome one.

People never get sick. They are kind of like the elves in Lord of the Rings: they live forever unless they're killed. (Immortal but not invulnerable.) When you go to Funland, you become immortal, and if you leave Funland, you become mortal.

They have babies, but Funland never gets too crowded; you just keep adding on.