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Eurasia is one of the three superstates in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It comprises all of mainland Europe, modern day Russia, and a fluctuating amount of Manchuria, Mongolia, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Its political ideology is Neo-Bolshevism. Eurasia most likely signifies the advancement of the Soviet Union and a prediction of how the Soviet Union would advance geographically with time (at least from Orwell's point of view). Very little information about the superstate is available in the book, though it may operate in a similar style to the USSR, as well as have the same government and, given that a large portion of its territory and population is Russian, one can speculate that the official language is most likely Russian (as it was in the Soviet Union). Eurasia has historically been at war with both Eastasia and Oceania for control of the disputed territories of the world. It is very possible that the world became entirely totalitarian because of the Eurasian influences. It is unknown how Eurasia came to control of the rest of Europe, but it is likely it happened due to constant forceful influences and a violent war or a merge between the European Union (or a similar concept) and the Soviet Union, which somehow ended in a shift of the balance of power to the Soviet side, hence the Communist and Neo-Bolshevik ideology. One can only speculate that the centre figure or hero of Eurasia is either Lenin, Stalin, Marx or Engels, as each was a hero of the Soviet Union.
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