User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-80.187.96.14-20140124200627

I think the other nations do still exist and there were NEVER natural disasters outside of panem. there is still a war with the rest of the world, this is also the reason for the destruction oft district 13, but because oft the censorship of panem, the people believe, the district was destroyed by the Capitol. panem was about to fall when the events of the novels happened.