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{{quote|''Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic [[Utopia]]s that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself.''
|{{spoiler|O'Brien}}, '''''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'''''}}
A '''Dystopia''' (Ancient Greek for "[[Crapsack World|bad place]]"), also called a Negative Utopia, is a [[Speculative Fiction]] setting that comments on our own society and that a majority of us would fear to live in. The trick to creating a Dystopia is to take a social issue and turn it [[Up to Eleven]]. Better yet, do it with several issues, or perhaps all of them.
A dystopia is a social commentary literally in the background, as is a [[utopia]]n setting. The two settings share a problem in sometimes being a little too one-note. The author is thinking "capitalism sucks!", for instance, and everything wrong with the world turns out be clearly the fault of nasty [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s and their nasty, greedy [[Mega Corp|megacorporations]]. Conversely, it could be "governments suck!" and the corporations are the last line of defense against the evil, totalitarian [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|bureaucrats]]. The author could believe that [[Love Hurts]], and thus there is [[No Sex Allowed]] and [[Emotions vs. Stoicism|feeling Emotions]] is a punishable offense. Whichever, it is just one note - often [[The War on Straw|a straw note]].
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