Over at Wikipedia's page on Stanislaw Lem's Eden:

... An indistinct image emerges of doublers' Orwellian information-controlled civilization that is almost self regulating, with a special kind of system of government created with the use of a fictitious science Lem dubs Procrustics (cf. memetics): a dictatorship that denies its own existence and is thus impossible to destroy, a discipline of molding groups within a society and ultimately a society as a whole to behave as designed by secretive hidden rulers, in order to create a hideous form of social control in which the very existence of the governing powers is denied and each individual appears to themselves to be free yet is being manipulated and controlled (achieved, for one thing, through a controlled dissemination of different information to different social strata - as revealed by the astronomer doubler). One example described in the novel is the above mentioned settlement, kind of a "concentration camp" without any guards which is designed so that the prisoners stay inside apparently of their own "free" will. ...