Utopia vs. dystopia

noun

  1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.

  2. (usually lowercase),  an ideal place or state.

  3. (usually lowercase),  any visionary system of political or social perfection.

noun

  1. a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.