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** ''[[The Jungle]]'' by Upton Sinclair.
*** [[The Jungle]] is a debatable example. Though the story is fictional, the setting and problems with the world were very deliberately based on the real life situation for the working poor in early twentieth-century Chicago. So much so that it inspired the creation of new laws (albeit laws around food safety rather than worker protection).
* ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]?'' by [[Philip K. Dick]], the novel which inspired ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Nominally, the film is an adaptation.
** ''[[Minority Report]]'', also by Dick, is set in a world where the police can predict your actions, and convict you of murder simply for thinking it, even if involuntarily. The film version goes a step further in that retinal scanners track every movement of every citizen, ads call people by name by reading their identity, and mechanical spiders are used to conduct unwarranted searches, eliminating any semblance of privacy.
* ''Bend Sinister'', a book by Vladimir Nabokov in which a fictitious East European country is [[Day of the Jackboot|taken over]] by the Ekwilist [[Black Shirt|Party of the Average Man]], who want to end conflict by equalizing all personality attributes and making everyone the "average man." In reality, all they succeed in doing is ruining the lives of the country's inhabitants, murdering the family of the country's only internationally renowned figure, the philosopher Adam Krug, and driving him insane.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[http://misspentyouthgame.com/ Misspent Youth]'' by Robert Bohl is a game where teenage kids take down a tyrant in a dystopian future world. There's even a step of play called "Dystopia Creation," where you group-create the world that you're playing in.
* The ''[[Warhammer
** Not to mention there's a faction of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] who are considered to be naive ''because'' of that belief. Given the setting, there's probably a kernel of truth to that.
*** Of course, [[Troperiffic|like so many other tropes]], 40k plays with the Dystopia trope: Some worlds are utter shitholes where trillions of people live in perpetual misery and poverty and/or is under perpetual attack from said manifestations of vices and just about every other alien force in the galaxy, while others are fairly pleasant and safe places to live. The big problem is that there's a lot more of the former type of world in 40k than the latter.
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* ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' features a Randian utopia [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. The sequel goes to the opposite extreme, showing a collectivist dystopia.
* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' and its sequel. The United States' economy is failing and is rampant with [[La Résistance]] forces, Europe is under a dictatorship-like rule thanks to MJ12 having enough power to work in the open, the majority of food that you find is either [[Future Food Is Artificial|artificial]] or candy bars that mention they are made from [[Human Resources|"recycled material"]]. All of this is happening while a pandemic is bringing the human race to its knees.
* ''[[Iron Storm]]'' is ''made of this trope''. [[World War
* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series tends to feature a dystopia [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] with each release. In [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]], the dystopia is driven mainly by the mass appeal of private military services, the use of warfare as a means of economic stimulus and the growth in the application of nano-machine technology (the game's [[Applied Phlebotinum]]).
* ''[[Shaun White Skateboarding]]'', as unlikely as it may sound, is all based around how the 'Minstry' has taken control of the people, forcing them to conform to a bland unemotional state and being constantly monitored. The only way to save the city is to skate around it, as which point colours start to appear and suddenly people no longer want to wear a tie.
* [[Oni]] definitely uses this trope. The first social issue is the environment. The environment is polluted like you would not believe. The government not only does nothing to address it, apart from using Atmospheric Processors to make the cities livable, but it brands anyone who tries to bring it up as enemies of the state and will crush attempts to reveal it. The second social issue is the development of science and technology. The government keeps an eye on scientists and carefully checks to make sure any technology developed is approvable (in other words, will not threaten it). They use the Technological Crimes Task Force as a [[Secret Police]] force to enforce this.
* The [[Crapsack World]] of ''[[
* The second Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games provide an example of this, when you go to a future where {{spoiler|Time has stopped, and all of the Pokemon are slaves to Dialga}}
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