| Today, however, our imaginations are stimulated, possibly overstimulated, by dystopic images and scenarios. |
| The tale begins with Katniss, a 16-year old with a dead father, ineffectual mother and beloved younger sister, who lives in a dystopic nation called Panem, which occupies what used to be North America. |
| Consumerism breeds the dystopic world of runaway pollution, of vast floating continents of garbage adrift in our oceans. |
| One tiny little flaw with this dystopic piece of counter-factualism: er, the public sector was entrusted with doing just that. |
| It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare. |
| Therefore, using faraway imagined places is a feature of utopic and dystopic imagination. |
