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One of the facets of Modernity was the project of the rational state, one plotted by the power of reason that would function optimally for the citizen population as a whole, dispensing with all the regional devolution, intermediacy of government, and local legal provisions and economic monopolies. The most advanced form of this enterprise is utopianism, the conceptualization of the perfect state of administration, often imagined as one with the potential of being realized in the future and therefore functioning as a blueprint to steer endeavors towards its achievement. Within the developing Armenian nationalist project, one of those visionaries was the Persarmenian novelist Raffi. In the final chapter of his novel The Fool (1880) he envisages a future Armenian democratic republic, the details of which we will be analyzing in detail in class. In anticipation of that I would like you all to read the text (Reader, pp. 141-147) and select one of the two questions below to which to respond in about half a page. 1.From an analysis of the characteristics and institutions of the democratic republic the novelist expounds in this chapter, come to a determination as to how “Armenian” this state is. What are its particularly Armenian facets, and what aspects emerge more as international features that might be common to any advanced economy of that time? 2.Applying both objective criteria that you feel most readers might agree with as well as subjective perspectives of your own, consider whether you would like to live in Raffi’s ‘ideal’ state. Please provide arguments in support of your conclusions.The book link http://www.armeniapedia.org/images/e/e0/Raffi_-_Th…