District 12

District 12 is a poverty-stricken area of Panem located in what was once the northeast United States. The district is mostly responsible for providing coal to the Capitol.

"'Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces. But today the black cinder streets are empty. Shutters on the squat gray houses are closed.'"