Eurasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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Eurasia is purple on the fictitious 1984 world map

Eurasia is one of three superstates in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the others being Eastasia and Oceania. Eurasia comprises all of mainland Europe, modern day Russia, and a fluctuating amount of Manchuria, Mongolia, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Its political ideology is Neo-Bolshevism.

Eurasia has been at war with both Eastasia and Oceania. It is implied that Eurasia was formed from the Soviet Union. Goldstein's book states that the war with both Eurasia and Eastasia is not a war in the traditional sense, but simply exists to use up resources and keep the population in line. Victory for any side isn't possible or desirable, but the Inner Party through an act of doublethink believes that such victory is in fact possible. Some believe that Eurasia is in fact just one part of a "World State" that controls all of Earth, but pretends to exist as three states to maintain the constant war used to keep the population in line.

According to Goldstein's book, Eurasia's main natural defence is its vast landspaces.

v • d • e Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Characters	Winston Smith · Julia · O'Brien · Big Brother · Emmanuel Goldstein
Places	Oceania · Eastasia · Eurasia · Airstrip One · Room 101
Classes	Inner Party · Outer Party · Proles
Ministries	Ministry of Love · Ministry of Peace · Ministry of Plenty · Ministry of Truth
Concepts	Ingsoc · Newspeak (wordlist) · Doublethink · Goodthink · Crimestop · Two + two = five · Thoughtcrime · Thought Police · Telescreen · Memory hole · The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism · Two Minutes Hate · Hate week · Prolefeed · Prolesec
Adaptations	1953 US TV · 1954 BBC TV · 1956 film · 1984 film · 1999 parody · 2005 opera · 2009 film
Influence	Nineteen Eighty-Four in popular media