0 a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened; a description of such a society:
Rapid industrialization led to fears about living in a dehumanized, mechanized dystopia.
In his imagination, his own country is a dystopia, a drunken, unhappy, overcrowded, uncultured nightmare.
Most alternate histories published in English are dystopias, depicting a society that is strikingly worse as a result of the changed outcome.
These quotations hint at the several themes fundamental to dystopia.
Although these themes are not necessarily in every dystopia, at least one will always be present.
The consumption utopia they portrayed gained in credibility as the government's portrayal of a capitalist dystopia lost in credibility.
Inherent in nearly all dystopias is a critique of the socio-economic system prevailing within that narrative: for cyberpunk, this is generally corporate capitalism.
