Does there exist

[james_davis_nicoll]

An SF novel whose setting knowingly includes a global example of a Stage Five society?

[not interested in examples where death rates exceed birth rates for reasons due to calamities like war, famine, plague and the like; those aren't really Stage Five societies]

Comments

[illian.livejournal.com]

I'd be hesitant to have children in any reality that was shaped by the kindly hand of Mr. Watt.

[(Anonymous)]

At least Mr. Watts is hard-SF enough that shooting yourself works as an exit strategy.

Bruce