The Oceanian National Anthem, "Oceania, 'Tis For Thee", used as the closing theme in S1E4 "How A Nation is Exploited". (The text of "1984" gives only the title.) Performed by the Airstrip One Mandatory Spontaneous People's Choir.

The tune is The Internationale, in a public-domain orchestral recording which came without an attribution. The lyrics were extrapolated by Robin Johnson.

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Lyrics:

O gracious state of Oceania,
Thy people resolute and bold!
We seethe with patriotic mania,
And we do as we are told!

Imbued with brilliance and bravery
Across thy width and breadth and length;
Where war is peace and freedom's slavery
And our ignorance is strength!

We're at war with Eurasia/Eastasia [delete as applicable]
And so we've always been;
How do we know? It tells us so
Upon the telescreen!

Oceania is noble!
Oceania is free!
With loyal salutes, we lick thy boots;
Oceania, 'tis for thee!

Oceania, 'Tis for Thee

1960s hippie version of the theme tune, used as background for the pub scene in Episode 4. Played on an ocarina and a bouzouki, which is the closest-sounding thing I've got to a sitar

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National anthem of the World State from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", set in a criminal frenzy to the tune of a song from a cartoon made by a company

Lyrics:
We can build you a world;
Sparkling, sanitised, spotless; 
Although maybe we've got less
Magic living in our souls;
Clone our kids in a lab,
Where a team of clinicians
Scrupulously conditions
Them for predetermined roles;
It's a brave new world!
No unhygienic childbirth;
With babies grown in glass,
Then sent to class
For social engineering;
A brave new world!
No real love or awe or mirth;
Though we're all vapid jerks,
The system works;
A shallow hedonistic hell on earth!

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National anthem of the United State (The One State or OneState, in some translations), from Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian novel "We".

Lyrics:
Ten million numbers, happy one and all,
In our glass apartments within our great Green Wall;
Suppressing our base instincts of jealousy and greed
And providing each as according to his need
Gratefully, we bow and scrape and grovel
To our leader who is great;
His dystopian science fiction novel
Inspired our State!
ZA ZA ZAMYATIN! Greatest man there's ever been!
He rules the world like no-one else could;
ZA ZA ZAMYATIN, dropper of the guillotine!
He subjugates us for our own good!

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TRANSCRIPT:
ORWELL: Mr Huxley! Over here!
HUXLEY: Hello!
ORWELL: It's George Orwell.
HUXLEY: What on earth did you call me for after all these years?
ORWELL: It's about your book. "Brave New World".
HUXLEY: The one you copied?
ORWELL: Might've... referenced it a bit. Aldous Huxley, meet Yevgeny Zamyatin. I believe you may have read his book, "We".
ZAMYATIN: I believe you both steal my "We".
HUXLEY: Er, well...
ORWELL: Of course, we all draw ideas from the, er...
HUXLEY: I mean, there are only six basic plots...
ORWELL: And this is Ray Bradbury—
BRADBURY: Howdy.
ORWELL: —and Margaret Atwood. I'll start. My name is George, and I wrote a dystopian novel that turned out to be broadly inaccurate.
HUXLEY/BRADBURY/ATWOOD: What?
ORWELL: Well, according to my predictions, we should have had a nuclear war and a few great purges by now. According to yours, Aldous, we should be cloning babies in test tubes. Ray, in "Fahrenheit 451" you said we'd be burning all book. Margaret, in "The Handmaid's Tale", you said—
ATWOOD: Actually, I think I might be winning.
ORWELL: All right, well... your book has applicability, I'll grant you. But the details—
HUXLEY: It's not about the details. We all wrote great books. They don't have to be perfect in every detail.
ORWELL: And what if they could be?
ATWOOD: Then we'd be living in hell.
ORWELL: But we'd have been right about it. And all of you can help build that future. We need visionaries, people at the top who really want this to happen.
ATWOOD: I don't want it to happen. That's why I wrote it.
ZAMYATIN: How's that working out?
BRADBURY: This is nuts. If my future comes true, they'll burn all our books anyway. And then I'll say I told 'em so.
HUXLEY: We'll all say we told them so.
(Pause)
ORWELL: So... esteemed writers of speculative political fiction... do you want a few people to read your books, put them down and, years later, when some government in real life does something a bit like something in your plot, they might think, "This is almost like that novel I read once." Or do you want everyone to know—you were right?
ATWOOD: Keep talking.

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