The People Who Care have remade the earth in their image, and it's an earthly paradise. War, hunger, racism, nationalism, random crime and violence, and most diseases have been conquered.
Humanity is joined together under a single, popularly-elected world government.
If you even want to find a gun anywhere on earth, you'd probably have to look in a museum. Technology is tamed to the needs of humankind, rather than despoiling the earth. Gay men and lesbians are not only just tolerated at the fringes of society, but are among its most powerful and respected members. Gay marriage is an institution as normal as any other marriage. Women are more politically powerful than at any time in human history.