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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Hunger Games] What was life like before the revolution and districts?
gpt
It helps to consider that Panem is, effectively, a future version of your current world, specifically an area in North America near the Rocky Mountains, which gives context as to the history of the world before Panem's founding.

While the administration under President Snow purposefully obscured many details about Panem's history, we know for a fact that at some point in the past sea levels began to rise rapidly, forcing the population of North America to condense into a relatively small area, starved for the same resources and quality of life citizens had previously enjoyed.

Even before the first rebellion (not a successful revolution, mind you), the Panem government organized most of its surrounding territory into districts to focus production for the nation's benefit. Ever since its founding, the Capitol was not keen on distributing resources, and as a result Panem's early history was just as miserable and oppressive as its recent history.