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Featured Article Ingsoc, a Newspeak abbreviation of English Socialism, (referred to by it's non-adherents as Oligarchical Collectivism) refers primarily to the totalitarian ideology of the government of Oceania, which at it's peak controlled the two American continents, Great Britain and Ireland (then collectively called Airstrip One), Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the southern half of Africa below the River Congo. Although both ascribed to the administration of Oceania it should be noted that there is a considerable difference between the Party's purported ideology of Ingsoc and the ideology of Oligarchical Collectivism prevalant among the Inner Party. Through the mechanism of doublethink party members and Ingsoc adherents are capable of embracing some of the political propositions of English Socialism whilst also embracing the fundamentally hierarchical political vision of Oligarchical Collectivism. The theory of Oligarchical Collectivism is largely explained in the book of former party member Emmanuel Goldstein, under the title The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. As a political theory Oligarchical Collectivism holds that all societies have been divided into a caste system. The three groups being: The High, who are the rulers; the Middle, who yearn to take over the position of the High; and the Low, who are typically so suppressed that in their drudgery they have no goals beyond day-to-day survival. Oligarchical Collectivist theory holds that the Middle has overthrown the High repeatedly by enlisting the Low on their side, pretending to the Low that after the revolution a just society will emerge. However, once the Middle have taken over, they simply become the new High and thrust the Low back into servitude, and as a new Middle group eventually splits off, the pattern repeats. (More)

The Fiction Encyclopedia The Fiction Encyclopedia serves as a Wiki exploring the immense world of fiction. However it differs greatly from the Novelas and Literature Wikis in that it discusses the subject-matter using an in-universe perspective. The Fiction Encyclopedia also combines information and images from canonical and (if deemed appropriate) non-canonical work in order to endow each article with a sense of encyclopedic realism. The real mission of the Fiction Encyclopedia is to create articles on fictional people, places and species but to do so in an encyclopedic way and using encyclopedic prose. For example the land of Lilliput (as described in Johnathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels") is described in the Fiction Encyclopedia as a country located in the South Indian Ocean, discovered in 1699 and neighbouring the country of Blefuscu. Everything, it's history, culture, even it's longitude and latitude (as provided in some maps that accompany certain editions of "Gulliver's Travels") is described in the Lilliput article of the Fiction Encyclopedia. By using canonical and non-canonical sources information and/or images not provided in the original text appear in the Lilliput article; for example the national flag and crest will be taken from one of the many film versions of Gulliver's Travels. The likes of Victor Frankenstein will be described as a scientist educated in the University of Ingolstadt. Ingsoc is described as an ideology most prevalent in Europe and the America's during 1984, referred to by it's non-adherents as "Oligarchical Collectivism". To write a new Fiction Encyclopedia article, enter the page title in the box below. <createbox> bgcolor=#faf5ff </createbox>

Featured Picture Lemuel Gulliver (Nottinghamshire, England 16- - 17-, Rotherhithe, England) was a travel writer, surgeon and Captain of several ships, most famous for being credited as the first European to discover Lilliput, Blefuscu, Brobdingnag and Laputa. The details of his discoveries are explained in his book Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.