This is my working assumption for all those teenage dystopias.
Hunger Games? World outside the US is fine. Better, now that the hegemon is more interested in watching it’s own population murder each other for television ratings.
Don’t want me making that assumption about your story? Maybe mention anywhere outside the continental US at least one [1] time. At least Handmaid’s Tale acknowledges Canada. And I guess heaven forbid Mexico ever get a mention.
This is my working assumption for all those teenage dystopias.
Hunger Games? World outside the US is fine. Better, now that the hegemon is more interested in watching it’s own population murder each other for television ratings.
Don’t want me making that assumption about your story? Maybe mention anywhere outside the continental US at least one [1] time. At least Handmaid’s Tale acknowledges Canada. And I guess heaven forbid Mexico ever get a mention.
Wasn’t the epilogue of A Handmaid’s Tale basically the rest of the world saying “wow, what happened in America was super fucked”
To be fair, this is a common twist in those sort of stories.
The world outside was watching in out of amusement.
The world the main character had always known turns out to be a penal colony populated by criminals and their descendents.
The rest of the world was performing an “experiment” on the population here the main character originated.