Definition of "cacotopia" []

• An imagined place where government is of the worst; the opposite, in the character of its political institutions, of the ideal commonwealth which Sir Thomas More (1516) placed on his imaginary island Utopia (‘No-where’). See Utopia. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Considerations such as the above serve to explain why writers and film directors ‎ since George Orwell's 1984 have depicted the future, not as paradise regained, but as a ‎ series of dystopias and cacotopias (perhaps the most memorable, after Orwell's haunting ‎ novel, was Anthony Burgess's more 'lyrical' cacotopia, "A Clockwork Orange", which ‎ found the perfect director in Stanley Kubrick, the misanthrope of the twentieth century). ‎"
• "A dystopia (or alternatively cacotopia) is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror."
• "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was coined in the late 19th century by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who also used Jeremy Bentham's synonym, cacotopia."