In Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the One State builds a spaceship called Integral. The vessel is intended to carry the regime's ideology beyond Earth and bring other worlds under its authority.
The narrator, D-503, is a mathematician and the chief builder of the Integral. He initially treats the project as a triumphant expression of rational organization. His confidence begins to weaken after he encounters I-330, whose rebellious behavior challenges the One State's demand for total conformity.
Integral is more than a piece of futuristic machinery. It represents the regime's belief that mathematical order and political control can be universalized. The planned voyage therefore extends the novel's conflict from one society to the imagined universe.
Zamyatin wrote We in the early twentieth century, and the novel became a major precursor to later dystopian fiction. Its numbered citizens, glass homes, and authoritarian collectivism influenced discussions of works such as Nineteen Eighty-Four.