I find the governments in both A Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games, to be somewhat identical. They both control their people with mandatory jobs, roles, and severe punishments.
But if you look deeper into them they govern completely different. In The Handmaid's Tale, they keep peace by putting people into distinct groups, handmaids, aunts, commanders, eyes. In The Hunger Games, the way they keep peace is by having the hunger games once a year (one boy& one girl, form each district- fighting to the death).
Although both governments are wicked corrupt, I think that the government in The Hunger Games is the most corrupt.
I think the Capitol does separate people, too, just more broadly. The Districts cannot communicate with each other, and like the different women in a household, each District can only contribute a single thing to the rest of the country. Their singular purposes prevent any one District from gaining too much power, much like the Handmaids, Marthas, and Wives in each household.
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