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Big Brother is... Sorry, not [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|''that'' Oceania]].
'''Oceania''' is <s>Australasia</s> Australia and the Pacific Islands. It's a political continent, because it can only reach the geographical definition of "continent" stretching its meaning until it reaches [[Genius Bonus|its plastic zone (or even fracture)]], because it's not a huge landmass but a collection of islands and atolls. On the other hand, Australia is considered a continent in
The islands are divided in three zones: Melanesia being the islands north and northwest of Australia (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Australia's Norfolk Island, etc.); Micronesia, the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|micro-islands]] north of Melanesia (Federal States of Micronesia, Palau, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Wake Island, etc.) and Polynesia, with [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a lot of islands]] (New Zealand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, etc.).
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Regarding tropes, there are few of them here. Why? The islands have achieved independence only in the '70s and '80s (like Africa, they suffered from the same colonial syndrome). With the exception of the biggest three<ref> Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea</ref>, every single country here has less than a million people, and most have less than 200,000.
* [[Australia (country)|Australia]]
* [[New Zealand]]
* [[Papua New Guinea]] (Sometimes considered part of another region, such as Indonesia)
* [[Solomon Islands]]
* [[Vanuatu]]
* [[Federated States of Micronesia]]
* [[Kiribati]]
* [[Marshall Islands]]
* [[Palau]]
* [[Fiji]]
* [[Nauru]]
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* [[Tonga]]
* [[Tuvalu]]
* [[Guam]]
* [[Pitcairn Islands]]
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