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Originally Posted by aeshnidae
And yes, there are major geographic disparities in dystopian fiction, as well as authors of dystopian fiction. I learned quite a lot about the topic while creating this map. From what I've seen, the US and UK pump out the most dystopian fiction (and provide the majority of the settings for dystopian stories). Next is Russia (the first modern dystopian fiction is We, written in 1921 by Yevgeny Zamyatin), followed by Japan and then Sweden. Not a lot of dystopian fiction comes out of the Middle East or China, for different reasons. I feel like I should write a scholarly paper about it! 
