Question: **Utopia within a Dystopian world?**

Or would this be a Utopia slowly diminishing into the state of being a Dystopia?......Hmmm 

**Question**

Within a futuristic world overrun by another "intelligent" species... 

* Is it possible to turn the world from a Utopia to a Dystopia while still 
keeping a "Headquarters" that is utopian?

I want my world to have a center where the "wealthy" are in a utopian environment while the rest are in a distopian environment. 

**Thoughts**

Maybe it would be more logical/pleasing to have an Oasis within a Dystopian world rather than trying to create a utopian place within a dystopian world?

What I am asking for are opinions/logic. Does this idea seem feasible or just complete non-sense. 

If this is too vague, I apologize in advance. I haven't created my world, only the species and creatures that would inhabit it.

Answer: 
A utopia relies on sufficient resources for all. A dystopia happens when there is a shortage of resources

You can have a utopia inside a dystopia where there isn't enough resources for all but what resources there is is channeled to a group leaving the rest with less.

If you look at [The Hunger Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_(film)), the Capital is a utopia with advanced technology, medicine, entertainment, fashion and the citizens live a life of luxury but the Districts are kept poor and repressed because the resources they produce are channeled to the Capital.
**An Utopia that "lost its way" and turning into a Dystopia? Absolutely.** There are already enough real-world examples of that happening. And more often than not the "failure" of the Utopia was because of human errors/shortcomings.

**An Utopia which exists side-along a Dystopia? Equally possible.** While "Utopia" is (roughly) defined as the "best possible place to live in for the people of a whole society" it omits the definition of "society" and doesn't cover those who *don't* live in said society.

For the latter version, consider the dichotomy between the Eloi and Morloks in H.G. Well's "Time Machine", picked up in Stephen Baxter's "The Time Ships" where the narrator elaborated a bit on how these two human subspecies began to drift away from their common ancestors.