Is the world of Chiikawa socialist or capitalist?

Here, capitalism and socialism are told apart by who owns the land and tools used to make things. Do individuals or companies own them, or does society as a whole manage them democratically? That looks like the big dividing line.

There are also ideas of socialism that use markets. There's also a view that even if a state manages the economy, it isn't called socialism if working people can't take part in deciding things. You can't sort it as “there's buying and selling, so it's capitalism” or “there's a manager, so it's socialism.”

Pay that a qualification is said to raise, a sweet for a celebration, a house won in a sweepstakes. The reasons for receiving each are different. Even in the same world, there's more than one way for things to change hands.

Still, you can't say that because there are gifts, things are owned in common, or that because a house was won, everyone's housing is guaranteed. I want to check what is guaranteed, and for whom.

Can workers talk things over and set the terms? Who do the tools and places belong to? There are still things I want to know in order to compare.

Using words from real-world society makes it easier to explain what catches my attention in the story. They're not for guessing what the author thinks, but a tool for reading scenes side by side.