When Candide and Cacambo first land in Eldorado, they see a group of children playing a typical childish game. However, upon closer inspection, Candide and Cacambo are surprised to see that the pucks “were fairly large round objects, yellow, red or green, which shone with extraordinary brilliance” (59). Furthermore, they “picked up some of them and found that some were made of gold, while others were emeralds or rubies; the smallest of these would have been the greatest ornament on a Mogul's throne” (59). Children treat golds and emeralds as if they were just worthless pebbles. Furthermore, when Candide and Cacambo leave Eldorado and ask for some of the gold, the king asks in amazement: "I don't understand why you Europeans love our yellow mud so much, but take as much as you want , you are welcome there” (66). Just like the children, the king believes that gold has no value and even compares it to “mud”, a material that has no value. By comparing gold to mud, the king exaggerates the uselessness of gold in Eldorado society. Dalnekoff, in his aforementioned text, states that “it is a characteristic of utopian literature to satirize the economic systems of real society and the lust for gold and silver. ...While in the real European world gold and silver are associated with what is noble and exalted, in Utopia they are associated with what is noble and exalted.