dystopia – noun
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a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
as opposed to…
utopia – noun
- an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
- (usually lowercase) an ideal place or state.
- (usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or social perfection.