The story and world of The Hunger Games are centered around the complex history of Panem, an authoritarian ... Unfortunately, the Capitol devised a plan of its own at this time to squash the ...

On the Capitol’s website, she is described as “ready, willing, and eager to fuel the Panem of tomorrow.” But the unhappy, soot-glazed ragamuffin displayed in the accompanying image looks ...

this is the Panem that's just coming out of a war and is in a reconstruction era." That sense of reconstruction is present throughout The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, especially in its Capitol ...