User blog comment:Xxkiiroxx/"Shingeki no Kyojin is Set in North America" Theory/@comment-108.73.109.146-20141023004341

That  is indeed possible, but it doesn't explain the title of the first episode and the fact that Picks himself has stated before the "remaining" parentage of humanity ended up in the walls the monarchy was still in power 2,000 years prior to the events of the titan shifters and the populace being memory whipped of any info about the outside world. But then again this still could be an alternative time so um yeah