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A dystopia is a fictional society that is dark, oppressive, or fundamentally broken—the opposite of an ideal world—and it matters because these imagined worlds help us think critically about real problems and warn us about potential futures we might want to avoid.
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thumb|upright=1.3|Life in Kowloon Walled City in [[British Hong Kong has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works.]]
A dystopia ( "bad place") is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place (possibly state) in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Dystopia is widely seen as the opposite of utopia – a concept coined by Thomas More in 1516 to describe an ideal society. Both topias are common topics in fiction. Dystopia is also referred to as cacotopia or anti-utopia.