RpNation

"this society is really bad, but mostly because they do something really mean to teenagers!!"

Yeah, they forget that dystopia is actually a prolonged look- and experiment of sorts- at the polar opposite of a utopia.

Not a whiny, 'edgy' world full of Nazi rip-offs, and oppressed teenagers.

And those teenagers, inexperienced and full of mood swings, actually win against seasoned veterans, and tyrannical soldiers.

I mean, fuck. It needs some massive genre deconstruction, this 'YA' genre.

sometimes it's hard, though. you gotta have a government that comes off as scary and not inept- but at the same time, there USUALLY needs to be conditions that can lead to a rebellion, if you're gonna have an RP that's something more than a "get arrested by the police and get tortured to death" simulator.

and for me, nazi ripoffs are also sometimes hard to avoid. you need to resist the coolness (and clicheness) of peaked caps and dark uniforms.

A dystopia usually has to have at least a majority of the people supporting the government. Blatant tyranny's going to get the military against you in a coup.

Bioshock infinite played it straight, the original bioshock is a deconstruction of the romanticization.

There's also the recent We Happy Few.

Some of the classical books did it well too, chief of them being the works of Orwell, who basically invented the genre.