An Orwellian Reality

This is the landing page about my main Alternate History timeline, An Orwellian Reality (AOR).

***"Big Brother is watching you."***

## Welcome to An Orwellian Reality

Brothers and sisters, welcome to this alternate history wiki made by me, ~~*Big Brother*~~ Awesome Pinerin (that's my fictional name). An Orwellian Reality (shortened AOR) is an alternate dystopian timeline where Eric A. Blair's (George Orwell) famed novel of Nineteen-Eighty-Four, and more specifically, the country of Oceania, actually existed in the year 1984. The story revolves around the Soviet Union, who managed to spread communism all across the world in America's absence, but quickly had their global hegemony broken by their former puppets. This world is still very heavily under construction, and only a few nations have completed content so far.

### (probably) FAQ's:

* **Why is there no content past 1984? -** The lore is set in 1984, not 2022. Future expansions could extend the timeline further towards our present, but for now, the timeline ends in 1984.
* **Why didn't you follow the lore of Nineteen-Eighty-Four? -** Almost all of the information we got from the book is told by the Ministry of Truth, who is known for making things up. So I assumed that Eurasia and Eastasia are just made up.
* **Where is the Point of Divergence? -** There are two main PODs: The first being Operation Unthinkable activated in July 1945, which ended in an Allied defeat; the second POD was Japan not surrendering after the nuclear bombings, forcing the United States to launch Operation Downfall.
* **Will this timeline ever be made into a mod? -** Unfortunately, not from me at least. I know nothing about coding, nor do I even actually play HOI4. That being said, if any developers see this and want to make this into a mod, do it.
* **Where did you get the inspiration from for the pages? -** The New Order and the Kaiserreich wikis. Both are some of my favorites in the alternate history community. That's why the infoboxes are similar to TNO ones.

## Inspiration

The entire scenario, and the lore behind it is loosely based on George Orwell's final, and most famous novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984). The book is essentially Orwell's social views and criticisms of Stalin-era USSR and Hitler's Nazi Germany, and serves as a warning to the dangers of nationalism and government power. In the book, the entire world is "divided into three superstates": Oceania, which controls the Americas, Australia. Britain and Southern Africa; Eurasia, controlling continental Europe and the former USSR; and Eastasia, controlling China, Korea and Japan. Northern Africa, MENA and Southern Asia are constantly fought over along an area called the Equitorial Front. Eurasia is ruled by an ideology known as Neo-Bolshevism, Eastasia is ran under Obliteration of the Self, while Oceania is ruled using the ideology of English Socialism.

Noticed how I put "divided into three superstates" is in quotes. This is because the entire thing about Eurasia and Eastasia, and probably the territory Oceania ACTUALLY controls could, and probably is, a product of Oceania's Ministry of Truth. There is a popular theory that Oceania is just the British Isles, while some say that Oceania rules the world and are just pretending to be at war. That brings us to a nice transition for me to talk about the main point of 1984: Social Control. Oceania is ruled under the party Ingsoc, and the social control it places onto its citizens is almost unimaginable to anyone else other than Orwell. Here are some quick examples of how Oceania works:

* Oceania is divided into four main sections: The Ministry of Peace is Oceania's military, ensuring that their perpetual war is kept at a state of equilibrium. Ministry of Love is the one dishing out punishments for any non-loyal citizens (like Winston and Julia, the main characters of the novel); Ministry of Truth is the one to basically rewrite history in Ingsoc's image, while the Ministry of Plenty is to ensure infinite poverty and to oversee the economy.
* The nation has omnipresent surveillance all across their territory, and absolutely EVERYONE have to worship the godlike Big Brother, who is displayed across all state media. And I do mean, EVERYTHING. Oceania has three main classes: The Inner Party, which is responsible for major decisions: The Outer Party, for the bureaucracy: and the Proles, which Ingsoc barely cares about. Basically, the Party is all Ingsoc really cares about.
* In Oceania, one perpetually consistent theme is Doublethink. Essentially, Doublethink is a concept where two contradictory beliefs are held. Neither or removed, both are believed. For example: I say that the USSR won the Cold War, when they obviously didn't. If you commit doublethink, you believe that the USSR won the Cold War and lost the Cold War. Neither is disproven, both are believed.

I can go on and on about how Oceanian society works, but I think I should probably leave that to the society part of the Oceania country page.

## Summary

*"It is a bright cold day in April, and the clock is striking seven. The ruling class of the Soviet Union, their hands filled with document folders in an effort to mediate the global tensions, quickly entered through the spiraling glass doors of the Palace of the Soviets to escape the cold wind, though not quickly enough to prevent it from blowing into the balmy Palace."*

-Parodical Version of the first passage of Nineteen-Eighty-Four

The year is 1984. The Red Flag is waving all across the world as the United States finds themselves stuck in an eternal war against Oceania. Great Britain and Eastern North America are Ingsoc territories. The Soviet Union has puppet regimes across the entire world. Communism has taken over the entire planet, and it looks like that the Workers are finally liberated, overthrowing the bourgeoisie.

While the Soviet Union look like an omnipower rivalling the Roman Empire for their economic, military and political greatness, the country is dying from within. Years of economic stagnation, along with increasing rebellions from the Polish and Pashtun SSRs are troubling the country, turning the global superpower into an economical time bomb. Globally, they lost almost all of their European conquered territories during World War III, with them now stuck in a cold war against the French Commune. They also lost most of their influence in Africa and even Asia. Worse still, the leadership is also very unstable, with them already being at their third General Secretary in the space of just 2 years. The new leader, Konstantin Chernenko is very ill already, and is clearly unfit to rule. Factionalism is running rampant and unchecked across the Soviet Union, and perhaps soon, the world's only superpower will implode from within.

Across the entire world, the international stage is in a complete state of horror. While it is not as bad as Nineteen-Eighty-Four, it is nowhere as bright as even our OTL 1984. The British Isles have been transformed into Airstrip One, with barely any recollection of memories from the former United Kingdom, hidden in museums across the globe. America, Canada, Mexico and members of the Pacific-Atlantic Treaty Organization (PATO) are fighting an eternal war to liberate the East Coast, and across the ocean, a shattered and ruined Japan is ruled by the Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza. In Europe, the French Commune is slowly falling apart, with their National Secretary Georges Marchais becoming increasingly erratic in his speeches as tensions within the Politburo rises over his treatment of the Premier Francois Mitterrand. The Cold War between Africa, Europe, China, PATO and the Soviet Union are heating up, and the world is teetering on the edge of death and destruction, something it has experienced so many times over the past 50 years. Is the light of hope gone forever for everybody across the globe?