In George Orwell’s 1984, the author envisaged a world carved up between three superpowers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. What we find in the story: Officially the three superpowers were permanently at war, with all three constantly forming new alliances, and breaking them, and changing sides. But in reality, as Big Brother’s representative O’Brien finally explains to Winston Smith, the ostensible war was a sham. Each and all the superpowers’ leaders were interested only in power and in pe