Nineteen Eighty-Four is dystopian.
Ingsoc . Ingsoc ( Newspeak for English Socialism or the English Socialist Party ) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell 's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . Nineteen Eighty-Four . The superstate is under the control of the privileged elite of the Inner Party , a party and government that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as `` thoughtcrime '' , which is enforced by the `` Thought Police '' . Thoughtcrime . The term was popularized in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell , wherein thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question the ruling party .