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

Re: Logan's Run

[disassembly_rsn]

In the original book, the killing-people-at-21 policy was implemented specifically because originally the young people who implemented the policy preferred it to birth control. Kids under the age of 7 wouldn't be seen in public; the state raises them.

However, the way the society is *shown* doesn't make it look as though the birth rate is very high. I don't recall a large proportion of very young teens in the visible population.

Disclaimer: it's been a while since I read it.