The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that The Hunger Games are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water

Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.

The large pauldrons covering the shoulders are of different shape, with a couple of lobster-tail plates added above as épaulières.