Oceania (AOR)

The ensign of Ingsoc, designated as the unofficial flag of Oceania.

**Oceania** is an English Socialist state, spanning across the British Isles and Eastern North America. The nation is the main focus of the actual book *Nineteen Eighty-Four* and is deemed to be one of the most extreme totalitarian states in human history by virtually everyone else. The country is officially led by a figure known as Big Brother, who is widely believed by non-Oceanians to be merely a personification of the ruling party Ingsoc. They border the Irish Republican Army in what was previously Ireland and the Midwest Anarchy Zone in their American holdings.

Born from a Stalinist rebellion in 1954 in the United States, the war was mostly contained around the American Rust Belt region, before the Oceanians broke the containment zone in 1961, culminating in the fall of New York in the summer that year. The British rebellion would start in 1956, and the country surrendered after Penzance was taken in December 1964. They would sweep across Eastern Canada in 1965, before eventually stabilizing after taking Ontario and everything east of the state. The country started their adoption of English Socialism in 1958, and the transition was made complete by 1969. The country is in a perpetual war with the Pacific-Atlantic Treaty Organization (PATO), the successor to the former North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, as well as abstaining from any diplomacy.

Within the nation, society is an unbearable hell of constant oppression, mass surveillance, extreme nationalism and manufactured fear. Cities like New York or London have been torn down and rebuilt according to the image of Ingsoc; infrastructure barely exists in any capacity; the concept of the entire world is twisted to a point where Oceania can claim that they are at war with two other superstates across the Equatorial Front, when in reality they are fighting against PATO in North America; as well as the destruction of humanity and society in Oceania.

## Politics

Oceania is ruled by Ingsoc, a party that solely exists to continuedly oppress the masses. They don't follow any specific ideology, instead following English Socialism, despite the fact that bears no resemblance to either Marxist-Leninism, Maoism, Juche or Eurocommunism. The Party, as it is referred to, has around 6 million members, or around 6% of Oceania's population. This is less than half of what the Oceanians claim Ingsoc to be, as Oceania reports fake truths to control people. The Party is divided into four main sections, with over a dozen smaller divisions.

### Ministry of Peace

The Ministry of Peace (Newspeak: Minipax) is the military department. It ensures a state of perpetual war against "Eurasia" or "Eastasia", and to ensure that the war be kept in a state of equilibrium to stir up nationalistic fervor. Minipax controls the Oceanian Navy and ensures that nobody escapes to either Scandinavia or France, or IRA-Controlled territories. Oceania claims that they fight on the Equitorial Front and is invading India against Eastasia. In reality, Minipax fights on the American Front against the United States and her allies, and their soldiers are made to believe that they are in Africa, not America. Minipax is named after the opposite meaning of their function, however it could also be said that Minipax is literally protecting the peace to prevent the fall of Oceania. Their headquarters is located at a 300-Meter-tall building at where Buckingham Palace is in real life, bordering the Thames River, which has been diverted to literally ensure nobody remembers anything about the past.

### Ministry of Love

The Ministry of Love (Newspeak: Miniluv) is the disciplinary department of Oceania. It serves what it says - Love, although in a twisted way. It ensures everyone, all 100 million Oceanians to be loyal and devote their lives to Big Brother via fear. They are notorious due to them having control over the Thought Police (Newspeak: Thinkpol), an organization similar to the Stasi in Germany. However, instead of rooting out dissent, the Thought Police will arrest anyone who has committed illegal thoughts. They also run all the prisons and torture chambers in Oceania, including Room 101, located in a former tube tunnel under the Thames River. Their headquarters is at a 300-Meter-tall tower in the center of the real-life City of London.

#### Thinkpol State

Main Article: Thinkpol Oceania

The Thinkpol State of Oceania is indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Love. The nation is located in what is formerly New England, most of New York State except for the former New York City, as well as the states of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Thinkpol Oceania brings the concept of Ingsoc even further, and life in Thinkpol Oceania is beyond one's imagination. Cities like Boston and Halifax are bulldozed to the ground, with every building being the exact same except for Victory Square, where the Thought Police is located in for every city and settlement. In addition, the concept of a "Prole" does not exist, and mothers are separated from their children right from birth, with the mother being sent to a joycamp to be "re-educated". This state exists purely to give the Thought Police a playground to play around with, and to tests the sheer extremes and how literal Ingsoc can be taken to.

### Ministry of Truth

Described by many as the "propaganda arm of Ingsoc", the Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the one industry that is the most well-known across non-Oceanian territory. It rewrites history, and erases anyone from existence if they ever step out of line. They not only produce constant amounts of propaganda but controls the stream of information and spreads the official language of Oceania, Newspeak to its citizens. Most of what the world knows from Oceania came from leftover propaganda posters and audio tapes in the MAZE, along with a substantial amount of paper bottles washing up along the shores of Continental Europe once in a while. Their headquarters straddles what was the British Museum and the Senate House.

### Ministry of Plenty

Being the economic arm of Oceania, the Ministry of Plenty (Newspeak: Miniplenty) oversees the rationing of supplies. It also ensures that Oceanians continuously produce useless items or weapons for the eternal war against "Eurasia or Eastasia" (as mentioned before, it's actually the United States and Canada). However, the rationing of supplies is deliberately mismanaged to ensure that everyone stays poor and in a state of perpetual poverty. Oftentimes, the Ministry lowers the rations, but the Ministry of Truth claims it has gone up, which remained constant for years on end. The ultimate goal for this Ministry is to convince people that they are in an age of prosperity when they are obviously not. Their headquarters is located around where Wembley Stadium was in real life.

## Foreign Relations

According to Oceania, they are in a perpetual war with the other two "superstates" - Eurasia, ran under Neo-Bolshevikism; and Eastasia, ran under the Obliteration of the Self. It is claimed that they are allied with Eurasia and at war with Eastasia, though recent reports says that they are now at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia. To Oceania, they claim that the area around the Equator is an endless battlefield, fought over in a quadrilateral between Darwin, Brazzaville, Tangier and Hong Kong.

In reality, Oceania only controls the Eastern half of North America and the British Isles, and actively fights a war with the United States and Canada on the West Coast in the Midwest Anarchy Zone, or MAZE. They also completely abstain from diplomacy, as the concept of the "three-state world" forbids them from having any foreign relations. Oceania is hated by virtually every single country on the planet, as they are seen as nothing more than ripoff Nazis under a new name and a bunch of crazed warmongers. The USSR and their communist allies see Oceania with utter disgust, as their idea of "socialism" is very severely deviated from even Stalinism, while France and their EEC are outright planning an invasion to liberate the British Isles, and free the enslaved masses on the Isle. One of the most prominent critics of Oceania is Emmanuel Goldstein, one of the few non-fictional people Oceania hates on. He was the Chief of the Thought Police until 1973, when he escaped Oceania from the former Isle of Wight after being picked up by a French helicopter. He now lives in Germany, helping the EEC with their future invasion of Oceania.

Whether if the invasion will actually go ahead is unknown, considering the power struggle between Georges Marchais and Francois Mitterrand in France, and the Soviets breathing down their door in Germany. However, Germany's Premier Egon Krenz has stated that "Oceania is a bigger enemy than the USSR", so perhaps the country's presence in Europe is coming to an end.