User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-74.190.42.247-20130410211954

I think that maybe North Korea started shooting nukes at everbody but the people his in mountains and fired antinukes to survive. But then the water level rised, and at the same time this was happening, communinst seized the government of the U.S.A and renamed it Panem. But nothing happened to the rest of the world except a few nuke hits on big citys and submerged coastline. But panem bombed canada and now it is an uninhabited wasteland. After canada, Mexico held back Panem and built a strong border between it and Panem. So Panem made a large De Militarized zone in front of the border and had barbed wire and land mines all in it. In asia, North Korea merged with china to create The Union of East Asia. They took over most of the rest of Asia, including Indochina and Siberia. Then Saudi Arabia took over the middle east and formed the Saudi Empire.