User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-195.240.138.71-20120625163639

It might be possible that whatever destroyed North America destroyed just that and nothing more. Europe would continue with its business, although the economy was hit by the destruction of all those countrys. After a year or so, a war starts between the European Union and the Middle East. It is a nuclear war so the concequences are horrible and much is destroyed. This war goes on for over a hundred years. During those years, Panem organizes the Hunger Games. Europe is horrified, but can't do anything because they have to take care of themselves and the war.

Then the war ends and Europe wins, although everything is destroyed, the economy has been heavily damnaged and many people are dead. The Capitol is imperialistic and sees an oppertunity to conquer a new continent. They send their troups to the weak Europe and found a new capitol there, on an human-made island somewhere in the sea between Britain and Norway. The current borders remain, but some slight changes are made: the real small countries, like Liechtenstein or Andorra, vanish. Islands like Corsica become unpopulated. There becomes a western, richer part and an eastern, poorer part of Europe. Those are divided by the ancient 'Berlin Wall'. The western part is divided in the Northern section (Scandinavia), the Middle Region (what we call 'west europe' nowadays, ex. Netherlands, France, Germany) and the Southern Zone (Spain, Portugal and Italy). No country had the guts to rebell, except for one: White-Russia. Troups were sent and within eight minutes bombs destroyed every square inch. Only around 10% of the population survived and they lived on in the small parts wich aren't affected by the nuclear radiation from the bombs. After that, no other country rebelled.

That's my vision of Europe (a)