Eastasia is one of the three superstates in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Its borders are not as clearly defined as the other two superstates but it is known that they at least comprise most of modern day China, Japan, and Korea as well as fluctuating areas of Manchuria, Mongolia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Its political ideology is, according to the novel, "called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-worship, but perhaps better rendered as "Obliteration of the Self".