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[hsiuism]

Confusion: Are the Districts in Hunger Games like city-states or provinces? If the former, how do the residents avoid an inbreeding problem?

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[beccastareyes]

Is a city-state really small enough to have to worry about in-breeding? I guess I assume that there's thousands of people in one, enough that you can keep some genetic diversity.

[hsiuism]

I hope that is the case! I am just getting the sense that District 12, at least, is really small - if only relatively - since Katniss seems to know everyone and gets around most of the District fairly quickly. And how each District only has one town square?

[beccastareyes]

That's a good point. I haven't read the books myself.

[boosette]

I think the answer you're looking for is "Suzanne Collins can't world-build her way out of a wet paper bag."

[hsiuism]

LOL, burn. To be fair, though, it's a problem I have with most sci-fi/fantasy works. No one seems to have a sustainable population anywhere!