Rather than arresting offenders, charging them with crimes, and making them sit through weeks (or months) of trials, we skip several steps in punishing criminals. In our utopia, those who are accused of trying to hack into our technological systems are labeled accordingly through digital etiquette as "triminals" (replacing the "c" in the word criminal with the "t" in technology). If someone is discovered as a member or is even associated with Non-Technologians, they have committed a crime. This underground organization consists of people who are against society from making any advancement in technology.
In order to tell if someone may be innocent of their crime or truly guilty, we use devices called Guilt-a-meters. They look very similar to View Masters, an old children's toy of the 30's that allowed one to look through multiple slides of pictures. When a person sticks their face behind the eyepiece, an infrared laser scans the eyes and will tell if the person is indeed a triminal. Once the person is declared as guilty, we strap the individual to a chair and force them to watch hours of footage that features the daily life the Flintstonians. We do this to hypnotize the triminal in a way of making them illiterate to our current technologies and everyday lifestyle. Concluding this training, the triminal will be exhiled to Flintstonia, a pre-historic planet within the Hydian Galaxy, that is about as far in distance from Jetsonia, as the Earth is from Jupiter.
In a sense, we aren't really punishing the triminal because it's a win-win situation for both sides. Jetsonians want their utopia and Non-Technologians don't want to be able to have access to electronics. They want humans to become universally more productive, and want robots to control less of the job market. When Non-Technologicians live in Flintstonia, they are believed to be at peace even though they are adapting to pre-industrial materials and machines powered by animals, in a stone age society slightly better than ideology seen with traditional cavemen.
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