1984: Reality

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Welcome to the landing page for the first collaborative timeline on this fandom. This is the scenario of **1984: Reality**.

## Inspiration

The scenario, and the lore behind it is based on George Orwell's final, and most famous novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984). In the novel, the world is controlled between three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. All three states are in a state of perpetual war, and all follow similar ideologies. The one of interest is Oceania, or more specifically Airstrip One, known as Great Britain in our reality. In the novel, Britain and the citizens living in it suffer a brainwashing more extreme than North Korea in our world, and constant surveillance makes privacy non-existent. Society is twisted to such an extent, that facts like say "Great Britain is an island" are not reality. Reality is whatever the Party, Ingsoc says it is. Even language is twisted, with the Oceanian language, Newspeak being a language to eradicate all remaining thought. I'm not going to tell you every detail of 1984, but to simplify: The world is ruled by three superpowers who use war to oppress it's people...or so The Party says so.

## Introduction

*The year is March 1984. Ingsoc rules Britain and Eastern North America and is destroying everything that the British and the Americans had once achieved. North America is a permanent battleground, with the war being started 30 years ago. The United States and her allies are fighting for their idenity to salvage what they once had. But without America, the Russians and communism have steamrolled the entire world. By 1984, only a handful of countries in Europe are still democratic and capitalist. However, there have been a split between the socialist countries of Western Europe and the USSR itself, and the Comintern is fracturing into smaller communist factions as well. With the new Soviet Premier being sickly and unable to rule, can the USSR survive the 20th Century? Can America and their allies liberate North America? It is up to you to write the story of **1984: Reality**.*

## Situation Overview

1984: Reality is a scenario that is inspired by Orwell's novel, but it shows the true reality of the world outside of Airstrip One. While Oceania claims to control all of the Americas, the British Isles, the Oceanian continent and the southern part of Africa, this is not the case in 1984: Reality. While Oceania do have de jure control over all of the British Isles, their influence only stretches to North America. Oceania in 1984: Reality nominally composes of the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland, the Canadian provinces east of Ontario and all land formerly controlled by the United States that is east of the Mississippi River. Without the United States or Britain however, communism has taken over most of Earth.

The turning point of this scenario is Operation Downfall, which exhausted the Americans after they invaded Japan, leaving the USA tired and broke. The ensuing chaos in America, along with the later chaos that would grip the UK in the following World War when America fell into chaos would turn the world into an unreconigizable planet.

### **Situation in North America**

In 1984: Reality, North America is essentially a giant warzone since 1954. Oceania is fighting a perpetual war against the United States of America, who, by 1984 has retreated to west of the Rockies, and is aiming to liberate the Eastern Seaboard and Canada, controlling British Columbia and Yukon. Since 1979, Mexico has also joined the war against Ingsoc. In addition, the Oceanians also need to deal with two uprisings in North America: The Dixie Boys, the main group of rebels in Southern USA, fighting to liberate the Deep South, and Quebec, who only started to rebel in 1980. These five groups are collectively known as "The Coalition". Between the Rockies and the Mississippi River is The Midwest, which is the warzone between the Coalition and Oceania, and is constantly changing hands. At the start of the scenario on March 3rd, 1984, Mexico has most of Texas, the Americans has all of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas and Nebraska as well as part of the Dakotas, Northern Texas and Oklahoma. The Dixie Boys control a part of most Deep South states, and has control over several major cities like Miami, Atlanta and Charleston. Canada meanwhile control Alberta and Saskatatuan. as well as part of Nunavut. Quebecois rebels meanwhile control Northern Quebec. Oh, and Alaska is a part of the USSR.

### **Situation in Europe**

Europe, without the United States have become a massive heaven for the Soviet Union. The USSR controls all of the USSR in our real-life 1984, but also have directly annexed Poland, Finland, Mongolia and Afghanistan as well. The British Isles have completely fallen to Ingsoc, but the IRA have been fighting a guerilla war in Ireland since 1956. Continental Europe is now divided between two main factions: The Warsaw Pact in the East (which is a sub-division of the Comintern) and the European Eurocommunist Community (EEC) in the West. The Cold War is mainly between France and the USSR, with the former splitting off from the Warsaw Pact in 1971, and has since led most of Western Europe to follow their ideology of Eurocommunism. The remaining "free and democratic" states (some are not really free but are just anti-communist in general) formed the Mediterranian Axis, mainly consisting of Portugal, Spain, Turkey and South Italy. Speaking of Italy, the country is now split into 4 parts, all technically at war with each other as they only signed a truce, not a treaty. They consist of the Facsist North, the Soviet Northeast (Venice), the Eurocommunist Centre and the Monarchist South. Either way, democracy is dead on the peninsula. Other notable changes on the borders include Austria forcing Switzerland to annex them, and Germany being split into the GDR and Bavaria, as the Soviets wanted a spare Germany in case the main Germans have any ideas.

### **Situation in Africa**

Without the United States pushing for decolonization, Africa is still partly occupied by Spain and Portugal, who didn't finish decolonization in Africa until the 1970's in our timeline. Between 1954 and 1957, all of the British colonies in Africa declared independence, with most following communism. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan split off in 1956 to form the Peoples' Republic of Egypt, annexing Israel and Palestine in 1967; the colonies of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya merged to form the Union of East African States; while all remaining British coloniesin Africa except for The Gambia all became communist upon independence. France suffered the same fate, with most of their colonies declaring independence between 1958-1960. All colonies they once controled except for the East African island nations, Cameroon, Niger, Togo and Burkina Faso are all communist. Morocco and Algeria survives from becoming communist due to both revolting and gaining independence before World War III began. Spain controls Northern Morocco and Western Sahara as well as Equitorial Guinea, while Portugal controls Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe,Mozambique and Malawi, completing their colonial dream. South Africa, south of the Portuguese colonies, controls not only Lesotho, Eswatini and Namibia, but Botswana as well. They are obiviously communist. Meanwhile, Ethopia annexed Eritrea and Djibouti and became communist, while Somaliland became independent. Italy retains control over what's left of Somalia. Don't worry, Gaddafi is still the leader of Libya in this scenario.

### **Situation in Latin America**

There has been some major changes in Latin America, particularly around the Caribbean. The United Provinces of Central America was formed in the mid-60's, as well as the Antillean Confederation. They control all of the Central American states and the Caribbean Islands respectively, and are both communist. Colombia annexed Ecuador and became communist, while only Brazil (Who annexed the Guianas), Uruguay, Argentina and Peru remain capitalist. The four countries formed the BAPU Organization (named after the first letters of the four countries), to combat communism in South America.

## The World of 1984: Reality

The world in 1984: Reality is as twisted as it is fascinating. Please get accuqainted with the countries, the people, the alliances and the ideologies that has shaped this world from the point of divergence in the early 1950's to the start of 1984.

* **List of Countries**
* **List of important people**
* **Timeline of Scenario**
* **List of Alliances**

## Note to Contributors

This scenario is an open timeline, meaning that everyone is allowed to create, edit and publish their own stories. While I would generally accept most things that are written here, there are rules to this. Before you start:

1. Read the Editorial Guidelines to ensure you don't accidentally become a raider or a troller.
2. If you have any questions, ask me. Here's the link: Message Wall:RobloxPinewood | The Road of Time Wiki | Fandom
3. Read the rules of this wiki.
4. Enjoy creating this world!