Mary Suetopia/Playing With

Basic Trope: A utopian society which seems like a good model to the author but would have fundamental logic flaws in reality.

• Straight: The story takes place in a non-oppressive communist state which works perfectly because nobody is greedy or lazy.
• Exaggerated: The story takes place in a vegan state which works perfectly because the author believes that every evil in the world comes from consuming animal products.
• Justified: The communist utopian society works thanks to centuries of sociological conditioning and only those people are allowed to live there who are deemed suitable after excessive psychological screening.
  • Alternatively, the communist utopian society exists in an alien culture that has no concept of self, like a hivemind.
• Inverted: A Straw Dystopia - The author attempts to create the worst society he can imagine, but the result would collapse under its own weight in real life.
• Subverted: The scenario first looks like a communist state which works perfectly despite no sign of visible control or suppression. But then someone does defect which gets immediately noticed by the invisible surveillance and the dissident is discreetly dragged to Room 101 without anyone noticing.
• Doubly Subverted: The dissidents treatment in Room 101 means that he sits down on a comfortable couch and is treated cake and coffee while a friendly man discusses with him the theory of communism. He is persuaded immediately and decides to becomes the perfect citizen out of his own free will.
• Deconstructed: A Well-Intentioned Extremist tries to create a perfect communist utopia but fails miserably because humans are inheritely lazy and greedy.
• Reconstructed: The communist utopia fails at first due to various issues but then the creator proposes scientific solutions - which in real world would bring their own issues.
• Enforced: The story was written as part of a communist propaganda campaign.
• Averted: The story takes place in a society which admits that it isn't perfect but still generally a good place to live in.
• Invoked: A character looks to defeat The Evils of Free Will in order to build a communist utopia.
• Defied: A character suggests to create a communist state, but others immediately point out why every communist state before failed miserably.
• Discussed: "I can't wait to move out of this capitalist hellhole and live in that perfect communist utopia."
• Conversed: "I'd love to live in a land like that, but I don't think one would have a chance to exist..."
• Plotted A Perfectly Good Waste: There are some disquietingly dark methods used to keep the utopia working, and it is left to the reader to decide if the utopia would be worth the price.

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