A location introduced in the 1949's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell, Room 101 is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love building in which the Oceanic Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia. The purported omniscience of the state in the novel is such, that that even a citizen's nightmares are known to the ruling Party. The theme of the Room is that it is possible for an all-powerful state to use terror to create any reality it wishes; that even the subject's sense of truth or reality can be changed by state violence.