In place of what was known as the United Nations, 3 Superpowers emerged. One emerged in the name of a Theocratic Movement that put Religion into the center of government, one that returned the Soviet Union into power over Asia and East Europe, and then there's The Collective of Oceania (Working name, may change. It's also inspired and loosely based on George Orwell's Oceania).

Life in the Collective's territory is filled with surveillance, Secret Police, Shock Collars, and all the dystopian horrors You can imagine. It's hard to say what ideology the Collective is based on, as outside observers barely get behind the scenes to analize the situation themselves. All that is obvious is the fact the party holds the populace on a short leash, literally. A simple misstep in Your movements cause severe punishment in the form of the forementioned Collar juicing Your throat with electricity. If that somehow fails -You tear it off- then there's the trouble. Secret Police will make sure you will be taken to "where people change into empty husks". This world is the Phalanstery as Imre Madach imagined it in his work, titled "The Tragedy of Man" mixed with George Orwell's dystopia. No bonds are allowed, families are town apart, lovers are punished, no matter what. You can only smile to the mean face on the big screen... or a representative of the Party. Do this, or else... Communes, where people are forced to live, are lifeless and sterile. There is no escape from this prison, unless one of those great explosions happen.

I wonder if any of You ask why am i using the word "Phalanstery" in a negative manner, and I understand Your concern. This is a concept that represents the Utopia what today's society seems to seek. To us... such society would be a horrible life equal to Orwell's Oceania. You see, Imre Madach, the writer of "The Tragedy of Man" depicted one of the Scenes in a Phalanstery, where the utopia dreamt of by Humanity emerges more problems than it probably solved. All speak the same language, all belong to the "same group", no borders and no nations, and it is not as good as it seems. The concept of family is destroyed here, all mothers are forced to be separated from Their children AT BIRTH! Life as We know it doesn't exist anymore... it's all Technocracy now. All animals are extinct, making it strange how there are people in the first place... And in Madach's interpretation, vegetation is also nonexistent. All memories of any nonhuman lifeforms are stored in a museum, where the narrator celebrates this death. I think this would not be out of place in Nineteen Eighty Four either.

Nineteen Eighty Four and Oceania/IngSoc © George Orwell
The Tragedy of Man © Imre Madach