Dystopia

A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia; it is a community that is undesirable. A dystopia would have a totalitaria government, environmental disasters, and utter chaos.

Origin
The word is Greek for a bad place. The word was coined in the book Utopia by Thomas More in 1516.

Government
Most dystopian governments would have planned economies or are states run by corporations. The ruler of the country would be hedonistic and selfish and rules with an iron fist.

Examples

 * Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


 * Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
 * The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
 * Jennifer Government by Max Barry
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
 * Soylent Green by director Richard Fleischer
 * We by Yevgeny Zamyatin