User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-77.0.20.146-20141123195147

I think it is not so apocalyptic in the rest of the World than the most of you assume.

Lets just take a reality-check:

There are 12 Districs with 12 "industries" and most of them need raw materials.

Were are the districts than produce Gold, gems, Iron, Copper, Oil etc? Are those produced in the Districts were they are used (e.g. Copper in District 3, Oil in district 6). I don't think so, if it were so, why have a district 12 that produces coal? Why not make this district just make a part of district 5?

Additional, for some materials there are not enough natural deposits an the north american continent to sustain a civilization.

I think most of the rest of the world still exists. Sure, not in that matter like ist does now (the global floodmap is nice, thank you all who have posted it, I thin 3000-4000 in shoult be the most accurate). Also many people dead, maybe somewhere in the world "dark" dictatorships have started (most likely in west- and southeast Asia).

Some Countries would prosper (mainly the south of Africa due to new fertility of the land), and some would "just go on" like always (Russia, China, Australia).

Panem is dependent from Imports from the rest of the World and i believe it would be like Japan durin the Edo-timo: isolated with a small trading Island or City were the Wrld brings goods in (Oil, Iron, Copper) and can buy genetic manipulated Animals, luxuries, hand crafted wooditems, coal and so on from Panem.