Oceania is one of the three superstates in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novel's version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives.
It is apparently composed of the Americas, Ireland, Britain (called Airstrip One in the novel), Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the southern Africa below the River Congo. It also controls - to different degrees and at various times during the cours...
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Oceania is one of the three superstates in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novel's version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives.
It is apparently composed of the Americas, Ireland, Britain (called Airstrip One in the novel), Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the southern Africa below the River Congo. It also controls - to different degrees and at various times during the course of its eternal war with either Eurasia or Eastasia — the polar regions, India and the islands of the Pacific. It is described in The Theory and Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, Oceania's declared Public Enemy Number One, as resulting from the merging of the British Empire and the United States. Goldstein's book also states that Oceania's primary natural defence is the sea surrounding it. This may be the reason why the Party highlights the Floating Fortresses.
It occasionally conquers the rest of Africa, but is...
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