There are some obvious ideas that most of us would agree with. First off is no labour; automated farming machinery, services industries, etcetera. This would have to all be a sustainable system, but that's not impossible to attain. Then there is the overcoming of all disease, etcetera.
Progress would then be made for the sake of mankind; research in technology, science, and metaphysics, alongside others who create art. This really rests on the idea that human nature can overcome the primal instincts which often seem to have driven events in the whole of our history and that a significant enough number who would do work for the sake of mankind instead of just their own gain... I suppose my utopian society is very communist in this way. There is a problem though with what happens when we reach the peak... I'm not sure if the human race is made to live in an unchanging, undeveloping world. We've been constantly developing since we first evolved and it's an integral part of the human spirit now.
Another problem is with immortality; in the utopian society we would have overcome unintentional death, but this would mean restricting the number of children you're allowed to have, if any, quite severely, to stop overpopulation. This is unfair on couples in itself, and there's the issue of whether the consciousness of a new being is somehow more valuable than that of an existing being.
With regards to the law I think it's fairly simple: you do not do anything that harms another. Otherwise, you are completely responsible for your own body, to do with as you will.
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