Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four in which Karl Pilkington has to decide what things he dislikes enough to put in Room 102. This would result, according to their game, in these things being erased from existence. In the 2011 "Doctor Who" episode "The God Complex", The Doctor and his companions find themselves in a hotel full of their own personal Room 101s, each with their greatest fear in it. In the 2002 game "" there is a floating rock known as "The Ministry of Truth". Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four The Ministries of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth are ministries in George Orwell's futuristic dystopian novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four before publication, Orwell wrote about hesitating between that title and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Warburg suggested choosing the main title to be the latter, a more commercial one. In his 1978 novel "1985", English author Anthony Burgess suggests that Orwell, disillusioned by the onset of the Cold War (1945–91), intended to call the book "1948". The introduction to the Penguin Books Modern Classics edition of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" reports that Orwell originally set the novel in 1980 but that he later shifted the date to 1982 and then to 1984. The introduction to the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt edition of "Animal Farm and 1984"