Dystopia ≠ Utopia
A dystopia is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, where the conditions of life are extremely bad due to oppression, or terror.
Science fiction (particularly post-apocalyptic science fiction and cyberpunk stories set in an imaginary future world controlled by technology and computers) often feature dystopias.

Common traits of Dystopian fiction:
 The setting is the future, but often with contemporary social trends taken to extremes incorporated on purpose.  A hierarchical society where there are unbending and definitive divisions between the upper, middle and lower class  Society is conditioned to fear the outside world, and one of the methods for achieving this is the restriction of information and freedom.  A corrupt authoritarian and totalitarian government creates or sustains the poor quality of life  This government makes people believe that society is proper and just, even perfect.  State propaganda makes citizens worship the state the leader of the state and the government.  There is strict conformity among citizens and the general assumption that having opinions and individuality is bad  The penal system often employs psychological or physical torture  Violence, cruelty and aggressiveness are always present.  Dystopias are frequently written as warnings, or as social satire, criticizing a current trend, norm or political system. In order for the dystopia to have an effect on the reader, the author uses characteristics of every day society so that the reader knows what he’s talking about. Therefore, the society portrayed has echoes of today, of the reader's own experience. Authors can use a dystopia effectively to highlight their own concerns about societal trends.

Common traits of the dystopian protagonist:
   often feels trapped and is struggling to escape believes that something is