Which of the following people is best exhibiting integrity in their actions? a. charlie decided to not pay taxes on some of his income because he worked at the irs and knew that he could get away with it. b. newt was the only one in the classroom while he was taking the economics exam. as he began to take out his notes to cheat, he heard the teacher coming and decided not to cheat. c. rod didn't want to cheat during the student council election, but his older friends told him that they would accept him into their group unless he cheated, so decided to cheat. d. barry just filled up his car with gas at a service station, but when he went inside to pay, there was no clerk to be found. he knew he could leave with a free tank of gas, but instead he waited for 15 minutes until the clerk showed up to accept his money.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.