Questions tagged [dystopia]
For questions about societies in which there is great suffering or injustice, often totalitarian or post-apocalyptic in nature.
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Does it make sense to have a journalist in a dystopian militarized fascist world?
I'm creating a world where all countries' governments are turning to ultranationalist authoritarianism with their militaries being behind this push. The state (in one such country) is planning to ...
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Not quite a dome, but...is there any type of developing tech I can use?
Ok....my story is set way in the future, but the tech is from the near future. In my mind, there is a geodesic type dome, or shelter, that is built to cover about 300 sq miles.
The covering is ...
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In a dystopian cyberpunk setting, what is the incentive of normal people to keep on living? [closed]
There are long list of what's wrong with the common cyberpunk dystopian setting, but let's start with these assumptions:
Cities have been replaced with arcologies - that is a self-sustaining city, as ...
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What's an Unethical Drug to Limit Anger in a Dystopic Setting
I am writing a dystopia story where anyone who expresses anger or rebels against the government gets labeled mentally ill and given drugs to make them complacent. One character, lets call him John Doe,...
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What are the consequences of making people's life choices publicly tradable on a stock market? [closed]
I'm working on a system for a world where individuals are traded like publicly owned companies on a stock market - but I know nothing about economics. Besides ethical consequences, is there anything ...
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What would make more sense for a floating city on Earth in a dystopian future: flux pinning or magnetic repulsion?
Here are some of the general characteristic regarding both FP and MR:
Flux Pinning
Requires a superconductor (usually type 2) that is cooled to extremely low temperatures
Requires a magnet whose ...
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How do Mexican drug cartels manage their land?
I've been writing a dystopia that revolves around a world that has gained a heavily ranked organization system, and parts of it, including parts of Mexico, are run by Gangs and Cartels. How do they ...
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How would a toxic halophilic bacteria (vibrio vulnificus) mutate and make all coastlines uninhabitable?
I am writing a speculative fictional story set in the future, where the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus mutates and makes life so dangerous for humans along the coast that everyone has to retreat into the ...
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What would climates be like outside areas of controlled weather? [closed]
If weather was controlled in circuitous paths of airships, Swipes lets call the rainbands, where it rains predictably every 7 days, and these Swipes were 1000's of miles apart, what would the other ...
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Will a Humans Tolerance Keep Going Until Full Immunity?
Context: This is a post apocalypse low fantasy, soft science world. In it megacorps have built a protected city for citizens to survive. The world outside the walls in dangerous, with toxic gas, ...
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Why might a repressive order allow for flamboyant newscasters?
Thanks in advance and sorry if this isn't within the scope of the forum, I'm new but I've lurked so I totally get it if this doesn't really fit.
Anyway, let's get into it. Setting is a far-future ...
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Digital camouflage [closed]
In the near future our net (digital) activity is monitored and logged into kind of social credit system. How would our protagonist go about
Hide illegal activity (Could it be camouflaged as legal ...
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In a world where everyone has a tracking implant, how might those be subverted? [closed]
In a dystopian world where all citizens are tracked through a small device under their skin, how might one go about "outsmarting" the technology to move about unimpeded? My only thought is ...
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In a righty-dominated society, how can authorities prevent a right-handed child from being born to two lefty parents?
In this society, superstitions regarding right- and left-handed people are accepted as fact. (I'm going to be politically incorrect and call them "righties" and "lefties" ...
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What specific experiments would psychologists perform in a school? [closed]
It's the future America: the US is ruled by an elite band of Psychologists, who function as the political and moral leaders of the country. The Psychologists wish to institute a system of universal ...
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