A vision of a society with very bad conditions of life, characterized for example by poverty, discrimination, oppression, violence, totalitarian rule, disease, pollution.
state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
