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Political geography

Three perpetually warring totalitarian superstates control the world in the novel:

The perpetual war is fought for control of the "disputed area" lying between the frontiers of the superstates. The majority of the disputed territories form "a rough quadrilateral with its corners at Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin and Hong Kong ", where ~ 1 5 {\textstyle {\frac {1}{5}}} of the world's population resides. Orwell outlines the highest disputed areas as Equatorial Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. Fighting also takes place along the unstable Eurasian-Eastasian border, over various islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean, around Floating Fortresses along major " sea lines ", as well as around the North Pole.