A society cannot be a dystopia. A dystopia is a fictional example, a literary scenario, used by an author to illustrate how political and social structures migh

A society cannot be a dystopia. A dystopia is a fictional example, a literary scenario, used by an author to illustrate how political and social structures might work in a hypothetical reality. Linguistically, it makes as much sense as saying a state is a satire, or that a person is a comedy.