Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Catastrophes and destruction happens. You can think of a dystopia as the opposite of utopia. While a utopia is an ideal society that is as perfect as possible, a dystopia is a society that is perfectly imperfect or just plain evil or wrong. Dystopian societies are often depicted.