Not necessarily boring. Someone even managed to turn it into a best-selling series of books and major motion pictures: The Hunger Games. The name of the country in The Hunger Games is Panem, meaning, of course, bread! The games themselves are the circus used to pacify the populace, either through entertainment for the upper classes, or fear for the lower classes.

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