The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Review).

Where the divide of society is those who have all the luxiries of good food and pleasant amenities and those that struggle to make ends meet. We find society at the Capital of Panem (previously known as North America), a thriving society that takes delight in the common members of other districts watching them compete, the winners inside an arena consisting of 2 competitors from each district, fight within the arena to the death. The irony in all of this is to consider the rich civilized, and the poor struggling to make it need to compete for the former's amusement. Peeta (the baker's son) and Katniss (the coalminer's daughter) have been selected from District 12 to compete in the arena.  What start's out as a romance and a competition, fighting for survival against another 22 tributes from various districts. Together they pool their survival resources and abilities. Disliking the whole-thing from the beginning. Winning promises the same fate that those have already established themselves in this world. The gamemakers make the rules, and allow (at first) for there to be 2 winners in the arena, and later to be revoked of this rule, the two manage to take out the other tributes in various methods of sabotage and trickery. As winners they find themself covering each other up and goind along with what the "civilized" observers conceive as a good story. Finds to be an enjoyable read all around. There's not a hint of the old stereotype of traditional North America, but a modern anomaly worth delving into of priceless Science Fiction.