 Philosophers have come to understand ideal theory in a number of ways, but we can follow John Rawls’s (1971 [1999: 7–8, 215–6, 308–9]) understanding of ideal theory as describing the best social and political order in light of certain high-minded accounts of human capacities, behavior, and natural circumstances, in particular a preparedness to comply with institutions that embody the correct conception of justice. Ideal theories of justice provide accounts of the “realistic utopia” that citizens should strive for, a society where everyone acts as justice demands by fully complying with just institutional rules (Rawls 2001: 4, 13).