Within our political system, we have two main political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. Each party has a platform built on two opposing ideas of government. But, there are also a slew of minor parties. The minor parties have a tremendous, although indirect, impact upon the platforms of the major parties. In order for the major parties to compete with each other, they must take into consideration the needs and issues of the minor parties. Although the number of voters within a minor party may not be enough to cause their presidential candidate to win a majority of the votes in the Electoral College, the voters can use their grouping to entice the candidates of the larger parties to address the minor party's political philosophy. Thus, the details of the Republican and Democrat platforms are rewritten to include portions of the minority party's stance, in hopes of swaying more voters towards the larger parties.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.  

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