Malaysia is a beautiful country.

Malaysia is a country where the weather is perfect all year round. We have 2 seasons, shine, and rainy shine.

Malaysia is a country where you'll meet some of the most soft spoken and friendly people in the world.

Malaysia is a country where people have the biggest hearts. Malaysians have come together in such brilliant ways to help one another. We literally have a word for mutual aid, "Gotong Royong" is such a beautiful word.

Malaysia is a country where all these cultures and people have come together to form something totally unique. How many nations in the world can claim our level of cultural diversity?

Malaysia is a country where we arguably have some of the best food in the world because of this

Malaysia is paradise on Earth.

Malaysia is a country where you can get sentenced to death for treating patients with terminal cancer with cannabis oil.

Malaysia is a country where you can get imprisoned if you protest for union workers, fighting for better treatment.

Malaysia is a country where your vote counts for nothing because the people that represent you can jump from one party to another at will

Malaysia is a country where you can get arrested for a Facebook post that expresses discontent over a decision made by the executive

Malaysia is a country where police brutality happens on a regular basis, people even die in police custody, but the media never covers it.

Malaysia is a country where it's leaders use the secret police to kill a whistleblower with plastic explosives.

Malaysia is a country where one race's supremacy over the others is enshrined in our Constitution.

Malaysia is a country where you can get publicly caned for loving a person

Malaysia is a country where Nazis get away scot free while those protesting racism get charged in court.

This is what dystopia looks like.

It doesn't always come to you in a brownshirt, with Swastika armbands screaming "Heil Hitler" like Nazi Germany.

It doesn't come to you in overt mass surveillance and giant screens of giant heads talking about doublethink like in 1984.

Malaysia is a country of contradiction.
It's beautiful, it has some of the best and kindest people in the world... When they want to be.
This beauty is skin deep.

Deep down we are a traumatized country that continues to traumatize itself.

Deep down.
Malaysia is dystopia.