The Hunger Games is placed in the past.
The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem , where boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18 must take part in the Hunger Games , a televised annual event in which the `` tributes '' are required to fight to the death until there is only one survivor .
The Hunger Games
is placed
in the past
in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future