User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-124.177.182.57-20140609023222

I think that a nuclear war happened, the U.S.A. were not involved however, due to the use of multiple nuclear weapons Antarctica started to melt, on top of that the radiation caused the development of a new virus: the rupture flu, the rising water levels and flu were to sudden, within 2 months 4 billion people had died, America was increasingly becoming unstable, the people encoraged the government to find a cure, the governemnt refused however, if they attempted to research the flu it could kill all of them, as water levels rose more people died, the government managed to find out that  Asia and Oceania were the source of the disease, due to being the main areas on which the nuclear war was held, utilizing nuclear radiation, a supposed cure was developed, however, the cure backfired, making the disease even more lethal, within days 90% of Earth's original population had died, and the flood levels rose even further until the Americans were the last surviving nation, the flu had luckily stopped, promoting a mass migration to America, the government sent out a global transmission, stating that all the people that are not contaminated can migrate to America, and if possible find species that arent contaminated and bring them to America, so the species do not become extinct, when all the people settled into America the government made certain portions of land become home to the species so they could grow/reproduce, the people rebelledduet thousands losing their homes, the government was overthrown, but the military leader quickly rallied his sldiers and took back the leadership without much resistance, the military became a politicial one party dictatorship, the military relocated their capital to the rockies, where a grand city was constructed, via the labouring rebels, the rebels were then separated into thirteen different "districts" each distrct focused on a different element, which was mainly given to the Capitol, each district focused on something different: 1:Luxury, 2:Masonry, Construction, Architecture, 3: Biotech, Technology, Factories, Electronics, 4: Fishing, Aquaculture 5: Power and Home Technology, 6: Transportation, 7: Lumber, Paper, 8: Textiles, 9: Grain, 10: Livestock an Livestock Products (cheese, milk, etc.) 11: Agriculture, 12: Medicine and Mining, (particularly coal), and 13: Nuclear tech, Nukes, Munitions and Graphite Mining, each of the districts were also isolated from eachother, having minimal contact except for trading products, or moving to the Capitol to become merchants. I beleive that Panem was also the only nation left, and that all survivors of the flu died heading to Panem, ordied due to lack of resources. I know alot of this comment dosent have much to do with the question, but this how i believe that Panem was formed and what happened to the other nations. i got the rapture flu idea from Panem propaganda, district 7 page.