How much oppression do you take in your dystopia?

I was musing on different styles of dystopias in fiction, and then in the real world, too. I came up with the following handy-dandy graphic:



It seems to me that in some stories, pretty much everyone is oppressed and miserable. There may be a superthin sliver of society that's privileged, but mainly everyone is miserable. Like in 1984 . . . which I haven't read in ages, so maybe there was a larger-than-superthin sliver that was living it up, but my impression was that it was pretty miserable. W...