What is the name of the totalitarian state in '1984'?

The totalitarian state in Nineteen Eighty-Four is called Oceania.

George Orwell’s 1949 novel divides the world into three enormous superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania includes the Americas, parts of the Atlantic, Australasia, and the British Isles. Within it, Great Britain has been renamed Airstrip One and serves as the setting for Winston Smith’s life under the Party.

Oceania is ruled in the name of Big Brother, the symbolic leader at the center of a personality cult. The Party maintains power through constant surveillance, propaganda, censorship, psychological control, and the rewriting of historical records. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, where he alters old documents so that the official past always matches the Party’s current claims.

A frequent mistake is answering “London,” because the novel’s opening scenes take place there. London is a city, not the state. Eastasia and Eurasia are also real choices within the novel’s political geography, but they are rival superstates. Oceania’s alliances and enemies can change according to Party announcements, making geopolitical truth deliberately unstable.