Why is The Hunger Games classified as a dystopian literature?

Dystopian literature examines cultures which exist based
upon their Utopian thoughts while using oppressive and controlling governments.
Therefore, the novel The Hunger Games is a perfect example of a
government working under Dystopian ideology.

The novel
portrays a government, the Capitol (or District One), as the ultimately defining party
responsible for the governing of the other districts. District One maintains control
over the other districts in two ways.

First, District One
holds the destruction of District Thirteen over the heads of the other districts. The
other districts obey the Capital based upon the fear that the capitol will destroy them
in the same way which they destroyed District Thirteen.

The
second way District One maintains power over the other districts is the Games
themselves. The games are representative of another way the Capitol can control the
districts given the fear of murdering off the representative of each
district.

District One reminds the other districts that
without them the districts will not be able to survive. Each district has a
specialization which the Capitol closely manages. The Utopian life the Capitol creates
for the other districts is not noticed or recognized by anyone outside of the Capitol.
The other districts are simply oppressed and controlled by fear.