I like the idea of a future setting too, but I don't want that to consume the whole RP. The RP, for the most part, is about the day to day struggles of these lower class people, not fighting the government or whoever. I just don't want people to get that idea.

It wouldn't be a dystopian RP because for the upper class citizens, life would be perfectly fine. It really only sucks for the 'undesirables".

But yeah, a future setting could work.