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 . The Ministries of Love , Peace , Plenty , and Truth are ministries in George Orwell 's futuristic fiction dystopia novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , set in Oceania . Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell . The superstate and its residents are dictated to by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism , shortened to `` Ingsoc '' in Newspeak , the government 's invented language . As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction , Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content , plot and style .