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This is intended to cover both those settings where virtually any honest, decent, rational people wouldn't want to live if they had a better choice, and those that while some people REALLY wouldn't want to live here, others would find them to be a paradise or at least acceptable.

For settings that are Dystopias for those who hate regional or National Stereotypes, please see the Hollywood Atlas. When the oppressed fight back, see Civil Unrest Tropes.

The Big House: It might look a warm and cozy place to spend the night, but most guests are going to be gravely disappointed.

After the End: see Apocalyptic Index.

Nightmare worlds: It's High Octane Nightmare Fuel and doesn't bother to hide it.

Bad Future: A future Dystopia.
Campbell Country
Childless Dystopia: No children, no hope.
City Noir, if it's as mean and depressing as it seems.
Dark World
Death World: The laws of physics and the very landscape hate you.
Dystopia
- Dystopia Is Hard: Even the triumph of evil decays over time.
- Dystopia Justifies the Means: Someone goes out of their way to make everything as crapsack as possible.
Eldritch Location
Forbidden Zone: It's forbidden for a reason.
Gaia's Lament
Garden of Evil: Mother Nature has decided her purpose in life is to kill you.
Grim Up North
Hell: See Infernal Tropes.
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: this one even warns you.
Lady Land: It sucks to be a guy here.
Lovecraft Country
Mordor
- Walk Into Mordor: one does not simply do it (read: these places are really hard to get into).
Nightmarish Factory
No Woman's Land: You really don't want to be a woman here.
People's Republic of Tyranny
Place Worse Than Death
Police State
Polluted Wasteland
The Savage South

Too Good To Be True: Just like a Utopia...Until you scratch the surface.

There Ain't No Justice: Possibly a good place to hide from authorities, if you can keep from being victimized yourself.

Cloud Cuckooland
Crapsack World: Anything and everything that can go wrong will go wrong, in the worst possible way.
It Is Beyond Saving: A place so messed up that people are arguing for either abandoning it, actively destroying it, or BOTH. (Though whether it belongs here or in Not So Bad is up for interpretation.)
Outlaw Town: By criminals, for criminals.
Quirky Town: Only trouble for those who value sanity. (otherwise, probably Not So Bad.)
The Savage South
Soiled City On A Hill
Vice City: Crime rates are so high, it's a wonder people still live there.
World of Badass: Everyone is a Badass... even that innocent little Heartwarming Orphan.
World of Ham: The worst you can get. Screaming and fighting is a staple in such a place, that even the slightest offense will make anyone there explode at the drop of a hat.
Wretched Hive ...of scum and villainy, of course.