User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-70.27.43.78-20120531033036

I think there are other civilizations out there. I think the important thing to remember in terms of geography and history is the source of whom we the reader are given this information. We are getting it from a 16/17 year old from the poorest district of Panem in Katniss. She his hardly a scholar or would have been educated in actual non propaganda non Capital approved geography. It wasn't until book 2 or 3 she learned district 13 wasn't destroyed how many folks in Panem besides a select minority even knew that about district 13? And that's in their own country and we as readers should take at face value that the rest of the world is totally gone? Where these new countries are or what they are called I don't know as the books don't mention them but I think there are other places because if Snow was willing to lie about District 13 I am sure he'd lie about other countries surviving as well.