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Hmm…it is hard to come up with ideas that aren’t solely based on the big three. But I’ll just type stuff and see what happens…. 😛

1. This isn’t directly what you asked for, but throwing a whole bunch of old people in a situation instead of some young people could be interesting.

2. The government could be kind of good, but maybe there’s a big mob that controls everything and the government is unable to stop them, even though they try.

3. Half the government is very oppressive and the other half is really good, and they either are constantly fighting or have this strange and fragile peace (that would probably have bad ramifications…)

4. Make the current situation of things because of a really ridiculous reason. For example  in my sort of dystopian story I had a world war start over a movie. The crazy thing is that a war could actually happen over a movie with politics and everything… XD

5. Take something that’s a normal trope and twist it to the exact opposite. The mastermind is usually very evil seeming and smart and seems collected. Make the mastermind a bumbling teenager or something who is entirely able to do what they did, but really doesn’t seem like it. Take the usual reason for motives and change it. Instead of revenge, protection. Instead of love of power, wanting to limit it. (which would probably backfire)

6. Make the oppression seem like freedom. I don’t know how you’d do this exactly, probably with a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff and propaganda.

7. Make the rebels the evil ones.

8. There’s a rampant disease that the government spread, but someone is mysteriously healing it, and the MC works for the government and has to try to stop the healer.

I could probably come up with more. Do any of those seem interesting/helpful? Do you have any idea of what you’d like to possibly write about?