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Big Brother is... Sorry, not ''that'' [[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 it's own right.
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You might also hear the term Australasia, this being Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea (the whole island) and some neighbor islands, including some of Indonesia. Sometimes Australasia is used the same way as 'trans-Tasman', to refer to Australia and New Zealand alone.
 
Regarding tropes, there are few of them here. Why? The islands have achieved independence only in the 70's70s and 80's80s (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.
 
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