Ever since the Decision, everything was perfect. This is because the Decision changed the definition of what perfection was. The founding fathers of this new world were intent on creating the perfect society and hired many of the most renowned philosophers alive to help them create it. Inevitably, every philosopher eventually reached the same conclusion- that nothing could ever be perfect the way we perceive perfect to be now. So the founding fathers made the Decision: they redefined what perfection was. Crime was at an all time low since everything from shop lifting to manslaughter was now considered legal, poverty was unheard of since the poverty line was done away with, and unemployment was virtually non-existent ever since “unemployed” itself became a job title. Was this indeed a perfect world? By our standards, of course not. By their standards, yes.
Melissa was one of the many naive residents of this new world who truly believed, as she was conditioned to, that the Decision made everything better. The only person she had ever known who was alive in the times before the Decision, the Imperfect Times, was her Great-grandfather, who died when she was seven. That was twelve years ago, but she still remembered his stories vividly. He told her of a time when crime was rampant, people were poor and technology was primitive. Of course, technology really hadn't really advanced all that much, even from today, but that was also changed in the Decision. Indeed, the only technology that advanced at all was weaponry, which had risen a great deal.
Melissa seemed to vaguely recall Great-grandfather say something about the Imperfect Times actually being better than they were now. This only made her laugh: how could anything be better than perfection? Great-grandfather was clearly senile.