We don't have that many cities. Just a handful in each District.
[ There's a pause before the next message, as though Finnick had to think, hard, about exactly how to say what he wanted to say. And in fact, that's exactly why, because it's not just the names of cities that don't make sense anymore. ]
Nobody's used the name "United States" for hundreds of years.
[ Or at least, that's what he's been told. That's what they've all been told, in their schools in Panem.
And there aren't billions of cities. There are the handful of cities in each of the Districts, and the Capitol, and that's it. The others were all destroyed, by the wars and disasters that changed the world as it once was and left only Panem. ]
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[ There's a pause before the next message, as though Finnick had to think, hard, about exactly how to say what he wanted to say. And in fact, that's exactly why, because it's not just the names of cities that don't make sense anymore. ]
Nobody's used the name "United States" for hundreds of years.
[ Or at least, that's what he's been told. That's what they've all been told, in their schools in Panem.
And there aren't billions of cities. There are the handful of cities in each of the Districts, and the Capitol, and that's it. The others were all destroyed, by the wars and disasters that changed the world as it once was and left only Panem. ]