The definition of utopia is an imaginary place or state where everything is perfect. In the fourth book of Gulliver's Travels Gulliver discovers a group of people called Houyhnhnms and the group shows the qualities of a possible utopia. Houyhnhnms have very rational thinking and do their best to stay away from entertainment and vanity. However, the Houyhnhnms could not be considered creators of a utopia because they emphasized unrealistic rules and the way they treated the Yahoo people within their society. Instead it is the Lilliputians who show most of the signs of a potential utopia in Gulliver's Travels. The theme of them being a possible utopia in Gulliver's Travels can be seen throughout Jonathan Swift's novel and is present in all the societies Gulliver encounters. . Honestly, the Houyhnhnm people were the closest society to utopia Gulliver encountered, but their way of thinking was too unrealistic to work. The Houyhnhnm did their best to try to refrain from doing anything that distracted them from the pursuit of reason, so they eliminated entertainment, all forms of vanity, and sexual desires. The problem with this way of thinking is that citizens do not have the freedom to do what they want, which will not make everyone happy, for a utopia to exist everything must be perfect, and if not everyone is happy then utopia does not exist . Instead, it was the Lilliputians who showed the most realistic possibility of being a utopia. To highlight how Lilliput represents the definition of a true utopia for England, Jonathan Swift uses several pages of “Gulliver's Travels” to detail the laws by which the citizens of Lilliput are governed. There is a comment about revolutions... in the middle of the paper... expresses the thought that only non-humans can achieve a perfect utopia. For humans, the work towards the goal of a perfect society will be long and may never produce the results of the Houyhnhnms, but by using new points of view, utopia may be closer than it seems. Bottom line, the Houyhnhnm were almost too perfect for their own good. They stayed away from all the things that would cause them to lose focus in the pursuit of reason, but it is not possible that everyone in their society is always happy with their way of thinking. The lack of freedom is too evident in Houyhnhnm society. Instead it was the Lilliputians who had the closest chance of realizing a utopia. While some of their laws could be quite extreme at times, most of their laws were for the greater good of all the people, and it is a system of government in which I believe the people could be happy.