Location from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Post-apocalyptic nation built on the drowned and burned ruins of North America — a Capitol gorging itself on spectacle while thirteen districts starve, bleed, and die to feed it.
Panem is a nation designed to punish. After the failed rebellion that destroyed District 13 — or so the Capitol claims — the Treaty of Treason established the Hunger Games as an annual reminder that resistance is futile. Each district serves a single economic function, forbidden from communicating with its neighbors. The Capitol takes everything and gives back just enough to prevent total collapse. Twelve districts are acknowledged. The thirteenth festers underground, waiting. The entire system is a pressure cooker with a cracking lid.
A continental patchwork of extremes: gleaming Capitol spires rising from Rocky Mountain peaks, surrounded by a ring of increasingly desperate districts stretching from Appalachian coal country to sun-scorched southern fields. Ruined coastlines mark where the old world ended.
Also known as: the nation of Panem