User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-26502520-20150918000926

I think Panem was all part of a bigger plan, like it happened on Maze Runner, or on Divergent. There must have been a larger society, that had survived through all of that, and they maybe were trying to find a place for civilization to happen again, in order to sustain the survival of the human race. So they must have created Panem, setting it in North America, away from the rest of the world, making its people believe they were the last humans on Earth. Of course when these situations happen, when there's a large country and a lot of starvation by its people there always comes those who convince them with nice words to save them. Like Adolf Hitler, right after the German crisis. And so there must have come a right-wing party, that took over Panem and transformed it on a working society, making a lower minority that lived in the Capitol, richer than everyone else. Things were going well for its leaders until they saw their country threatened by its own people, unsatisfied with the conditions they were living in. After the first and second rebellion Panem had seen itself for the first time a stable and fair society. Now the question is, were that larger society still alive at the end of these events? Maybe not, otherwise they would have come earlier to live in Panem. Or were they not expecting these dictatorships to happen and were they just waiting for it to stabilize? Or maybe things went well for them and they didn't need Panem anymore, maybe it was just a backup plan that just stopped being part of their agenda. All what I know is that I don't belive Panem was the only living society on the world.