The story is being told in first person narration meaning that the view is more personal and the reader experiences the full emotions of the narrator, however this can become bias. This is shown in the first page where the narrator quotes an article that appeared in the State Gazette. He is opposed to this article, though does not seem to really inform us of the reason why - maybe he does not completely know himself, which opens up a stream of questions from the reader such as why the narrator cannot decide why he does not agree and why does he not agree.
Irony is a heavily used technique in the first passage. Lines such as "it will be our duty to force them to be happy...resorting to arms" (pg 1) and "mathematically infallible happiness" - mathematics becomes a symbol of 'reductionist' theory. No creativity, no free thought. One set way.
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