The Oppressed Peoples of Modern 1984 is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by the Watcher with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.464 billion watched individuals are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the All-Seeing Eye. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming protected economy, worth 539 trillion social points a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 155,782 social points, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, billions of social points are being poured into a space program, and government employees from Modern 1984 dominate international lumberjack competitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Modern 1984's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is suffering.

Modern 1984 is ranked 138,615^th in the world and 5,512^th in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 3.46 billion capita.