District Twelve

Population: Around 8,000

Mayor: Scorpious

Industry: Mining

Ethnicity:
The majority of the population is Caucasian, but they are separated by a class system. The wealthier Merchant side of the district are often fair skinned and have light hair colours as well as lighter eye colours whereas the more impoverished Seam citizens have paler or even dirty skin and tend to have darker hair colours and darker eyes too, although they can have dark blues and greens.

Description

District Twelve is the smallest district in operation, deep valleys, follow rushing streams and rivers, and find yourself surrounded by some of Panem's most breathtaking scenery all behind an electric fence. The district's speciality of mining, specifically coal mining, has a total of fifteen mines in operation deep within the mountains that are part of Twelve. Mining is one of a few jobs that you can have in this district.

Despite having little to no money per person it has a thriving community of merchants and black-market merchants. As such the district is split into two main communities aptly named Merchant, where the rich live, and Seam, where the poor live. The economy of Twelve is synonymous with coal mining but that is simply not enough for most citizens here. Although thousands of miners labour daily, closing into ten hours daily to produce coal to fuel the whole of Panem.

Education is seldom completed, if you're old enough to work in the mines then you are applied by parents needing that extra money to feed the family, although the mines have strict rules on children using pickaxes after the age of eighteen, there have been many children that bypass this without a care.

The rich of the Merchant side of Twelve tend to look down on those from the Seam and are closer to the center of the district where the Justice Building is located. Their houses, although cracked and broken are still better than those of the Seam where they live in shacks and broken housing that barely have hot water.

The poor of the Seam are comfortable with their lives. These are the citizens that tend to work in the mines and have poor living conditions where they suffer from power cuts here and there. As most of the people here work for the mines, they are closer to the borders than those on the Merchant side.

There is one place that people come to, both rich or poor, where they can sell whatever they want. The Peacekeepers have only just relaxed into it being allowed but at times they can raid your stall at random. The Hob where various foods and drinks can be bought such as bread and alcohol. Usually not at unreasonable prices either unlike the ones in the Merchant side. Many sellers here are from The Seam to gain a bit of money here and there. Other items such as clothing and jewellery are also sold here.

The Fence and District Thirteen

The Fence

The fences into the wildlands are powered by electricity but at times it doesn't work due to power cuts therefore most try to get out here to hunt or escape. Only those from the Merchant's side are allowed out here and they must possess the right documentation.

Much like Eleven, this border tend to be heavily guarded but since the Peacekeepers here tend to be lenient, they sometimes turn a blind eye but expect your house or market stall to be raided later, it has been calculated that citizens that escape through the border seldom survive, with Peacekeeper parties being sent out to hunt these escapees only to find they have died from either the fauna or flora.

Those caught escaping through the Fence, if the Peacekeeper is feeling particularly wicked, is punished in front of everybody in the district square. These range from severe whipping to removal of appendages, and if the punishment fitted the crime results in a death sentence. The bi-polar nature of the Peacekeepers here in Twelve keep the citizens in check, as only the ones willing to escape through the Fence are the desperate and the mad.

District Thirteen

Past the deep valleys and mountainous terrain is the ruined district of Thirteen, once a thriving district tasked in mining graphite for Panem. Chemical warfare during the First Rebellion has left the district inhospitable for years and years, but still many of the Twelve and Eleven citizens escape to this place in hopes of a better life.

During the First Rebellion, when all was lost a mass exodus was planned prior to the bombing of Thirteen, however, that resulted in a failure and only the mayor and the vice-mayor, and their families escaped into Twelve. The Iscariots and the Coles have resided in Twelve and have left a legacy there, having at least a victor in the form of Thorium Cole.

Victor's Village

The Victor's Village of Twelve is gloomy, large and menacing all at once. It symbolises everything that Twelve is not, wealthy and rich, as if the Capitol is mocking the victors or placing them so far up a pedestal that it tempts future tributes to try and achieve the same. Marble mansions stand in this village a centrepiece of a statue of a woman, scantily clad, atop a fountain with lilies growing around her.

Conclusion

District Twelve struggles more than any other district, an industry in coal mining isn't as self sufficient as one would expect, combined with the potential dangers one can face down these mines; it's no wonder that many of Twelve's citizens try to their luck to escape through the Fence, the Merchant side live comfortably whilst the Seam go hungry most nights, a true divide is obvious here.

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Naming Conventions

Iscariots and Coles are from Thirteen, therefore anything related to graphite or their secret industry of nuclear tend to be common. The last name of Iscariot is symbolic, coming from Judas Isacriot, the one who betrayed Jesus, much like they, Thirteen, betrayed the Capitol. Cole just matches with the district's industry.

e.g.

Thorium Cole

Thorium a type of metal that is natural occurring and is slight radioactive and Cole 'see above'

For Twelve names, corruption of names is common as well as wild plants, especially those of the medicinal variety. Also accepted for names or last names are those of coal mining towns, especially in Britain or America.