A dystopia (from the Greek ???- and ?????, alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (????, caco = bad) was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works ([LINK: http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980528] [1], [LINK: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/col-dystopia.htm] [2], [LINK: http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN157181440X&id=3ye0vWc85eYC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=John+Stuart+Mill+dystopia+1868&sig=YesYZ8kSJZhhi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk] [3]) kakotopia or anti-utopia) is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. A dystopic society is characterised by negative traits the author chooses to illustrate, such as poverty, dictatorship, violence, and/or pollution. Some academic circles distinguish between anti-utopia and dystopia. As in George Orwell'

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