The Setting in The Hunger Games is in the distinctive future. Panem is where it is placed and it used to be North America, but with natural disasters and wars it was destroyed and turned into Panem. There is only one rich place and that is the Capitol. The Capitol controls everything, the districts are very poor, they cant leave to go anywhere and have to work or will die from starvation. There are two pictures, one is the Capitol and the other is part of district 12, i'll let you guess which is which.