idea: false utopia

[sowilo]

I'm thinking of making a country that is basically a false utopia, in which deliquents are taken in an 'reconditioned'.

I was thinking of maybe making it out of a country in our world, with some changes to the history, such as a civil war bringing the utopians to power. The utopians being lead by corrupt supers of course.

I've already thought of one super for this utopian government -- a sort of bio-computer. A cyborg that can basically communicate with computers and networks, which would be useful for the utopian government as they could easily censor any anti-utopian propaganda on the internet, amongst other things.

Said cyborg would be a the child of a non-super in the government who offers their child as a means to get past the glass ceiling, I guess.

Said cyborg would not have emotion per se, but would learn of social norms and reactions through the internet and observation of human behaviour.

A cool, maybe slightly predictable plot twist would involve said cyborg reading what they were censoring and then rebelling itself.

Would this work in the current world set-up, and what year is this being set in, so I can get some dates for the backstory?

More ideas and suggestions would be nice too. <:

[Li-Bai]

Term you are searching for is "dystopia" bro, like dystopic fiction. Clockwork Orange, 1984, Handmaid's Tale etc.

more to come later when not zombie

[sowilo]

I thought of that but...

dystopia |dɪsˈtəʊpɪə|
noun
an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

it doesn't sound appropriate? I mean, whilst there are those that are aware of the true nature of their government, most people aren't, due to their working in secret with the assistance of super powers. The government makes a utopia for their people through destructive means. They sort of have an ends-justify-the-means-so-long-as-we-don't-get-called-out-on-it ideology.