Question

Which scenario would best fit in a dystopian story ?

A) The people of a small town watch in awe as Harley's Comet blazes through the sky; after it disappears , they discover thousands of citizens have gone missing.

B) Aliens abduct a teenager and a clone replaces him in real life so he must figure out how to warn his family of the imposter.

C) The world is plunged into chaos when the government removes the right to electricity from rebel communities.

D) while working late one night the local librarian discovers a child with a wild and inventive imagination living among the books stored away in the library cellar.

Answer 1

The answer for apex would be C. The world is plunged into chaos when the government removes the right to electricity from rebel communities.

A dystopian society is usually a bad place ruled by a totalitarian governmant

Answer 2

The correct answer is C.

A dystopia is a "futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and  the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate,  technological, moral, or totalitarian control". It is the opposity of an utopia.

A world that has plunged into chaos because of the government removing the right to electricity from rebel communities is an example of a scenario for a dystopian story, since it shows how the oppresion of the government leads to a disastrous change on society's functioning. And it also shows how this scenario is maintained by the government's totalitarian control.

The rest of the answers, in which people disappear, aliens replace teenagers and a genius boy is discovered living in a library cellar, would make for good sci-fi scenarios rahter than dystopian societies.