The island dwelling-place of Winston Smith in George Orwell's novel Nineteen eighty-four. Formerly called Great Britain, it was renamed according to the principles of Ingsoc after it was absorbed into the entity known as Oceania.

Since Orwell wrote his novel in 1949 after the immense American military buildup for World War II, and a continued presence because of the emerging Cold War, and the UK's membership in NATO, one can easily see where the name came from.

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