I would venture that just about any dystopian novel features an oppressive government which is focused on keeping people under its thumb.
The people in our world who want limited government? Who want adherence the Constitution as it was written? The people who value traditional morals? These are not the people who would build the world of The Hunger Games or Divergent.
But Hillary and Obama would.
About the only exception I can think of would be William Gibson’s “Sprawl Trilogy” (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) in which government plays almost no role and corporations seem to basically run the world. Yes, it’s dystopian. But it’s not a oppressive system that controls people. It’s just chaotic and uncaring.
One other thought about “oppressive government” —
For the Left, if the government taxes the bejeezus out of everyone, that’s good.
If the government decides who gets what healthcare, that’s good.
If the government tells you what you can do with your business, that’s good.
If the government tells you what you can do with your land, that’s good.
If the government takes your children because you are a Christian, that’s good.
BUT
If the government limits access to abortion — well, then we’re dealing with oppressive right-wing extremism, and that kind of Nazi stuff just doesn’t fly around here! Gotta nip it in the bud!
All I know is that without Omni magazine and the oftentimes dystopian fiction contained therein I would be a very different person as an adult.
It made me a cynic.
It made me hate totalitarianism.