Nineteen Eighty-Four
 Nineteen Eighty-Four sometimes published as 1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949.The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language Newspeak) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes. 