(I) The word "Utopia' is taken from a Greek word meaning 'nowhere'. (II) It was first used in 1516 by Sir Thomas More as the title of a book he wrote about an imaginary country. (III) In it he described an ideal society with the aim of directing public attention to the corruption in his own country. (IV) Since then, the term has been used of any idealised society. (V) Actually More wrote his Utopia in Latin as this was still the language of serious writing in Europe.