Out of the three current superstates, Oceania was, if not the first to adopt its final and perfected form, the first to materialize. Its precedent can be traced to the Allied Nations of the Second World War. It was a decade later, after Stalin's betrayal, that its remainder would become more and more closely integrated during the course of the Third World War. First Called the Oceanic Alliance due to its maritime vocation, it mainly comprised the republics of the Americas and the British Commonwealth of Nations. The process of integration icluded a single military, a transnational presidency, the use of the Dollar as a single currency and the unification of the measure systems. Even if it presented itself as the last beacon of democracy, from the beginning of its existence most of its guarantees had been curtailed by a constant state of emergency, and life standards only decreased for the course of the war, even more so when said war became atomic in nature and economies and infrastructures crumbled. The Historicist doctrine that would become the base of Oligarchical Colectivism would originate in New York City by the works of Emmanuel Goldstein, but it would initially find most of its adherents in the British Isles, as a splinter faction originated in both the Labour and the Conservative parties, preaching a form of Socialism that represented the aristocratic ethos and moral hygiene they claimed to be at the heart of English civilization and that would invigorate the whole of Oceania. A truly English Socialism.
Eurasia can be traced to the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and can be identified as such after the Soviets overran continental Europe in the early 50's. It was the now reviled Stalin the first who talked about an Eurasian Union, but it soon became clear between several disaffected groups of the CPEU and its new European collaborators, many of which had read Goldstein's works, and which included a great deal of reconverted Nazi sympathizers, that the increasingly paranoid and erratic Stalin had bitten more than he could chew, and that a great effort was at stake of being lost. If Eurasia, with its enormous cultural disparities, wanted to keep itself together, it needed a greater clarity of goals and more efficiency in the pursuit of regimentation, in the adoption of closed elites, in the elimination of dissidence. Stalinism was not enough; rebellion had to become impossible. Moreover, subjecting itself to the caprices of a madman weakened survival chances: party rule had to be total but collective, uniform but decentralized. The poisoning of Stalin unleashed the last big round of purges, whose survivors furiously called for a new revolution led by a new vanguard, a new majority. A New Bolshevism.
Eastasia was the last one to appear, out of the chaos of the Chinese Civil War and the bleeding Eurasian-Oceanic battlegrounds of the Japanese Isles. Again, Goldsteinist thought made a resolute faction of both the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists to realize they had much more in common than they thought. By the mid 50's, they were already pulling the strings of both sides of the war in the shadows, while stablishing direct line with the Japanese Goldsteinists, themselves influenced by a weird mix of the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, Mencius and Ikki Kita. As a result, the body of doctrine espoused by the United Army of East Asia, when it was first named as such, was incredibly syncretic, but it appealed enough to far-right and far-left sensibilities to slowly sweep the dozens of antagonizing factions it faced through the chaotic East Asian Theatre. And of course, in spite of its syncretism, it followed to the letter the spirit in which the world was falling. The same fanaticism, the same hierarchical Collectivism, the same sadistic worship of power. The same Obliteration of the Self.
