Rebels

Panem's official history contains exactly one uprising. Seventy five years before The Hunger Games, the districts rose against the Capitol in what the Capitol calls the Dark Days. Twelve districts were beaten. The thirteenth, District 13, was destroyed, and footage of its smoking ruins still runs on television as a reminder. The Treaty of Treason that ended the fighting forbids travel between districts, forbids weapons outside industrial use, and requires every district to hand over two children a year for the Games. In District 12 the war is taught in school as a lesson in what happens to people who resist.