User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-120.28.127.178-20141025140331

In my version of the Hunger Games' expanded universe, there are five competing superpowers:

1.The Republic of Panem:We all know what they are like with the Hunger Games and all that, but they are not the most powerful country on this world.

2.The European Union:After the chaos of WW3 and it's aftermath, the EU governments were taken over by Neo-Fascist movements who were initally allied with Panem but split because Panem took a turn for the worse

3.Eurasian Federation:The Russians are an unalinged Kingmaker in the new world order. They are quite Technocratic and the like.

4.Chinese Federation:The Chinese, in a curious role reversal with the Panemians/Americans have taken up the sword of freedom and democracy in a world of despots. The Chinese democracy was formed after WW3 ended with nukes being lobbed by the Americans at Beijing and the Chinese launched a nuke at Washington, killing most of both nations' leadership.

5. Latin People's Union:The major communist power in the grim world. They have devolved into a pseudo-theocracy which worships Hugo Chavez and Karl Marx as "Great Guardians''

In addition to the superpowers, the Middle East became wasteland in the prelude to WW3(the resource wars), Australia is now a war zone ala Mad Max, and Japan fled to Space with the Japanese Islands being little more than a military base for the Japanese space regime.