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1	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/51_agtivail.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:180:Man stands alone in the sun. It represents something.]]
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4	''Utopian Massacres'' is a 2018 dystopian novella by Asi Hart.
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6	It's the post-scarcity future. TheGovernment takes care of everything and everyone. According to police records, there is almost no crime.
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8	Society is split by economic caste, workers live in one part of the city, while government bureaucrats live in another. Gangs roam the city blocks and sub-humans take every opportunity to invade people's apartments to drive them out.
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10	When Rob Botnic's family is killed by thugs, he knows that calling the police will accomplish less than nothing. At the bar he meets a guy who tells him to take care of the matter himself.
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12	!!Tropes in this novella include:
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14	%%* AntiHero: Rob Botnic
15	* ArmsDealer: Andel Pomsty helps Rob print some firearms.
16	%%* AxCrazy: Rob Botnic
17	%%* BlackAndGrayMorality
18	%%* BloodyHorror
19	* ChaseScene: a foot-chase on roof-tops, underground, in a train.
20	%%* CityWithNoName: the setting.
21	%%* ColdBloodedTorture: Rob's wife is subjected to this.
22	* DesignStudentsOrgasm [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-AGTiVAIL.jpg the cover looks very strange,]] the physical copy is similar, has the same image, but smaller font and looks even more reminiscent of a [[ProgressiveRock Prog-Rock album]].
23	%%* CrapsaccharineWorld: for government officials and employees the setting is this. And for the chavs it is an actual {{Utopia}}.
24	%%* CrapsackWorld: The lower class experiences this. It is well meant though.
25	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Several chavs get burned alive.
26	%%* {{Dystopia}}: TheGovernment is extremely well meaning, but out of touch and rather stupid.
27	%%* ForTheEvulz: The thugs are too involved in their tortures.
28	* TheGovernment: The government has unwittingly created a very bad situation for the lower class. The very existance of the chavs is their fault.
29	* MeaningfulName: [[PunnyName Rob Botnic]] means ''worker'' in Russian.
30	%%* {{Sadist}}: Martel and his crew are all this.
31	%%* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies
32	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Rob brings the pain to everybody he can think of blaming for his family's death.
33	%% * TheFuture
34	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Only [[TheGovernment the government]] and people who never meet or see them in person regard the chavs as humans. They look human, and legally they are, but everybody treats them as varmints.
35	%% * WideEyedIdealist: Jack Squarim. He gets upset when Rob tells him how things really are across the river.

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