User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-26358523-20150430181423

Okay, this is hundreds of years after us. I beileve that there are way more advanced Nations than Panem. Think about what Collins did to the memory of the world before; there wasn't one. It is similar to the situation of North Korea.The people of Panem are kept in the dark thinking that the Capitol is the most advanced tech savy place there is, when they actually lack tons of new technology. For all we know other countries could have gone to space travel. Despite the huge disasters, obviously there was technology developed before because if you really think about Panem has scrap tech, tech from the old world renewed. So, in short, other Nations are more advanced than Panem and surely more humane, because lets face it, if other countries were just as corruppt Snow would have a) allied with them or b) taken them over.