Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows that he was once in hospital but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High--Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a Frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of the year;
When there was peace he was for peace; when there was war he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation,
And our teachers report he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
The poet ends the poem by asking two rhetorical questions: ‘'Was he free? Was he happy?’‘. It’s amusing that these two questions are referred to in the singular, as “the question,” as if being free and being happy were the same thing. 
 The question is absurd to the government seeing as if something had gone badly they’d know about it. Although the government like to believe that they know everything, in reality, they don’t really know anything. They know each and every statistic and fact, but they don’t possess any noteworthy knowledge such as the feelings and the meaning of one’s life.
The Unknown Citizen