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StrangeQuarkMatter

The answer to this question is simple to those who understand that a Type One Civilization is not only more technologically advanced but more intellectually and socially advanced than humans currently are and what that entails. if such was not the case then such a state of technology would lead to extinction, it would be like giving a nuclear bomb to a 4 year old. That being said it is important to understand that any notion you may have of what a civilization or an economy even is would be similar to comparing a group of bonobos throwing poop at a group of chimpanzees to human-derived systems of international politics and trade, when comparing our way of doing things to a type one civilization. There are however some fundamental things we can deduce about how such a civilization would operate, all that is required to ascertain them is to give up your humanity.
There will be no social constructs such as the state, laws, or money because those things require a superstitious and illogical belief in something which was derived entirely from human imagination. Humans are highly subjective and superstitious animals, in the transhuman era we will outgrow such foolish garbage and be ruled by reason rather than institutions and beliefs.

MayCaesar

I would imagine that there would be no economical system as such. At some point in our technological evolution, our technology will become self-replicating (and I think that moment will coincide with the period of us starting to get the most out of our star system) - and then there will be no need for the economy (i.e. the system of resource exchange), because every individual will be completely self-sufficient, able to quickly produce anything they could possibly need out of the resources they already have.

Another scenario is that, rather than our technology becoming self-replicating, we ourselves will become the technology by merging with advanced AIs. In this case, it is impossible to tell what economical system, if any, will exist, because a machine mind (even if merged with an organic mind, which in itself, essentially, a machine) moves away exponentially fast from the original programming, and after a few evolution "cycles" it is impossible to recognize the original program in the developed AI.

I also would not fantasize about it realistically, because technology evolves in very unexpected ways. 200 years ago no one could even imagine that we would have something akin to the global system of communications, and nowadays we have far more than that: we are exploring space, we are having real-time video conferences in our rooms, we are exploring depths of oceans with advanced robots. I do not think anyone can realistically predict what our world will look like 200 years from now.