Utopianizing countries has been tried and have failed.

Utopian discourses are essentially frameworks for alternative communities, but are almost entirely theoretical in nature, involving discursive constructions. The question of the presumption, privilege or authority governing such discourses is central, since notions of utopia and dystopia are not merely mythical constructs, but lie at the extremes of a continuum of possible communities, aspects of which often offer aims and reference points for the construction of actual flesh-and-blood community. There is no shortage of cases in which regimes (in countries 20 ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA48.1 such as the Soviet Union and Albania) have incorporated aspects of utopian theory into their political structures, often with disastrous results: It is precisely because our gods, kings, presidents and scientists have dreamed of order and purity that we have tried to organize the world according to a grand plan, whether it be Versailles or trains that run on time. The tragedy that endlessly follows from such hubris should surely teach us that such dreams are dangerous. (Parker 1)