This is a world which sets limits on it's population, either by birth control or by "the Lottery", where the more money, you take out of it, the higher the chance of winning the death sentence, unltimited credit to spend on whatever they want in the time before their scheduled "making way" (sometime after the Lottery Ball) and $5'000'000 to go to their beneficiarys, 500 million live on that world, resources are more plentiful and public cars are availible for those who are able to drive them, there's no crime and no poverty.