User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-122.107.242.175-20140429122017

My belief is that the Govenrment of Panem sequested themselves early on in the picture after "The Event" whatever that was be it global catastrophy or another World War (or Zombies lol) or both... perhaps initially to preserve themselves and their resorces... 'cause we also don't know how long Panem was doing it's thing before the first reballion which in turn created The Hunger Games... like I was saying it probably was for good intentions in the beginning but corruption and what not took over which lead them into a more dictator regime... in the world outside of Panem, I believe most of the world would be changed geographically... Australia would be a horseshoe shape of sorts with the inner desert becoming filled with water... Europe would be a series of islands... The Asia/Russian Continent would have a vastly different coastline as would the African Continent inland low lying areas on these contnents would now be inland seas or even large bays (if connected to the ocean... many of the islands in the Pacific/Oceania would be smaller or gone...  the changing coastlines meant people would have moved to new areas...

it also depends on if it was climate change/world cataclism then did it happen fast or was it a gradual thing, like was it over the period of a decade or so for the waters to rise to their current placement... because if it was slow then people would've moved and such and they would have been prepared somewhat... and was it because of rising waters and changing landscapes that caused a world war due to resorce shortages perhaps...

so many questions left unanswered and drawing conclusions is fun and all but it would be great if there was some hard fact answers...