User blog comment:JERealize/What lies beyond Panem?/@comment-75.81.44.121-20140706092017

it could be just a North American deal. In Mockingjay Plutarch talks about the name of their nation, Panem. Plutarch goes on to talk about how Panem's society was built on a place called Rome and how the welathy people of Rome gave up their duties for food and harsh entertainment (exactly like the Capitol) If this world is set thousands of years in the future and the legacy of the Roman way of life still lives in organized nations, then it's safe to say that most of the world is still above sea level or somewhat. Think of atlantis....it may have once existed but since we have so real evidence of it's existance it's push away as a mythical land of wonder. So, i believe that if the Capitol still has record of place that we today call ancient, then those places may still exist.

Think of it this way....

Russia used to be the an empire, then the Soviet Union, and now they are a federation...yes the nation wasn't bombarded with end of the world stuff but it's political system has changed many times.....maybe the America became so into it'self that nations rose up against it to take it down once and for all? sort of like what we did in the Korean war...we split Korea into two nations....South Korea is a thriving nation, while North Korea is a dead waste land with the rich living it up.....maybe that happened to the west at some point in the future.....the poor nations of the world got tired of all the wealth we have that they just destroyed it all...Canada would become a prosperous nation...while the newly named Panem became a totalitarian regime where the people are told "the capitol can provide" "everyone is a threat to our peaceful Panem" "our leaders are great" much of what the North Koreans are fed by their government today. Maybe history turned on the nations that usually one wars and lived in wealth....now everone on the other side of the world is at peace and they are the powerholders now?

could be.