Mary Suetopia/Playing With

Basic Trope: A utopian society which seems like a good model to the author but would have fundamental logic flaws in reality.

Straight: The story takes place in a non-oppressive classless, stateless, advanced future society which works perfectly because nobody is greedy or lazy. The author is not advocating Xeer, which is the custom in a stateless situation in rural Somalia the supporters of which portray as being legal, viable and peaceful, even well into the future of technology. Instead, the author is a Marxian socialist.
Exaggerated: The story takes place in a vegan state which works perfectly because the author believes that every evil in the world comes from consuming animal products. The author is a Marxist wearing one of those EEG crowns the Party used to teach its followers how to control their own brainwaves, which are recorded into VHS tapes kept under lock and key.
Justified: The classless, stateless, advanced future society works thanks to centuries of sociological conditioning and only those people are allowed to live there who are deemed suitable after excessive psychological screening and being taught how to control their own brainwaves.
- Alternatively, the classless, stateless, advanced future society exists in an alien culture that has no concept of self, like a hivemind.
Inverted: A Straw Dystopia - The author attempts to create the worst society he can imagine, but the result would collapse under its own weight in real life.
Subverted: The scenario first looks like a classless, stateless, advanced future society which works perfectly despite no sign of visible control or suppression. But then someone does defect which gets immediately noticed by mass surveillance and the dissident is discreetly dragged to Room 101 without anyone noticing.
Doubly Subverted: The dissidents treatment in Room 101 means that he sits down on a comfortable couch and is treated to cake and coffee while a friendly man discusses Marxism with him. He is persuaded immediately and decides to becomes the author's idea of the perfect citizen out of his own free will.
Deconstructed: A Well-Intentioned Extremist tries to create a perfect communist utopia but fails miserably because humans can't unlearn socialism, and the ones that unlearn socialism are condemned as "adventurists" and "paracitists" and the socialists, some of which live opulently, fight the "adventurists" and so forth and each other alike by every means available.
Reconstructed: The communist utopia fails at first due to various issues but then the creator proposes scientific solutions - which in real world would bring their own issues.
Enforced: The Party had members, as detailed above to have been taught how to control their own recorded brainwaves, write the story in the aftermath of a split or as part of entryism.
Averted: The story takes place in a society which admits that it isn't perfect but still generally a good place to live in.
Invoked: A character looks to defeat The Evils of Free Will in order to build a communist utopia.
Defied: A character suggests to create a classless, stateless, advanced future society, but others immediately point out why every attempt before failed miserably.
Discussed: "I can't wait to move out of this capitalist hellhole and live in that perfect communist utopia."
Conversed: "I'd love to live in a land like that, but I don't think one would have a chance to exist..."
Plotted A Perfectly Good Waste: There are some disturbingly nasty and underhanded methods used to keep the utopia working, and it is left to the reader to decide if the utopia would be worth the price.

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