Dystopian society is characterized by futuristic view of the human life where people are under surveillance, state strives to control every aspect of human life and thinking, public information is designed to suit the government`s goals and evil plans, there is no freedom of speech or thinking, nature is destroyed - environmental disasters are all around, every person that tends to be different than others is categorized as an enemy, people are afraid of the world outside of it, there is always a great leader`s cult. Example of dystopian society in literature we can see in George Orwell`s 1984. Basically there is always an oppressive regime limiting freedom.
A dependent clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb, it does not express a complete thought so it cannot stand alone. the reason why it is a noun is because it is using the word orange cones to help the verb pop out or something.