Orwell didn't set the year

If you'll recall, in the novel "Nineteen Eighty Four", the year was never revealed. The title came from the date on the yellowed newspaper clipping. It very well could have been set in the year 2004. Oceania: the US and Great Britain. OK so we're tenuously allied with Eurasia, perhaps. Not against Eastasia, to be sure. But war is peace, lies are truth...and unless one agrees with circumventing the Constitution, one is not a Patriot...I'll rant some more later. :-0