Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four 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", set in Oceania. Despite the name, no actual "ministers" are mentioned in the book, and all public attention is focused on the idealized figurehead Big Brother. The Ministry of Love (Newspeak: Miniluv) serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine-gun
Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four a lasting hold. The inhabitants of the area, having no allegiance to any nation, live in constant slavery under whichever power controls them. Eastasia and Eurasia fight over "a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet". At one point during the novel, Julia procures tea to share with Winston and remarks that she thinks Oceania recently captured India (or perhaps parts of India), but such "control" is usually transient. The world of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" exists in a state of perpetual war among the three major powers. Two of the three states are aligned against the third: Oceania and