And it was a series of semi-independent city-states, if that sounds remotely familiar, a day's walk from one another where everyone was basically farming-mad, and grew vegetables in their back gardens, and ate communal meals together, and so on.
Era uma série de cidades-estado  semi-independentes — se isso soa remotamente familiar — a um dia de caminhada umas das outras onde praticamente todos eram  loucos pela agricultura, e cultivavam vegetais no quintal e tinham refeições comunitárias juntos.