Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-27702860-20160520022801

I kind of hope it is not some collosal petri-dish ala Twighlight Zone!

Anyways, Aren's book seems to imply they live in a "world" like ours if not ours. It seems that "humanity" as they know it exists relegated to a small area where numbers are kept down and technology limited: Cannot build decent guns--might start wiping out Titans, might start venturing out further; cannot build balloons and the like--might start droping bombs on Titans and venturing to far away.

Now what the state of the rest of the world is is anyone's guess. Could be the "homeland" is a small group not too far away and the rest of the world is a horrible post-apocalyptic nightmare like, say, Detroit or, even, Cleveland. Or it could be fine. One mark against "post-apocalyptic nightmare" is that in any such case we would expect from war, it is hard to not have much of the world devastated for a very long time.

But who knows. . . not enough information.

--J.D.