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I have a family farm in rural North Dakota (I don't live on it, but hope to move back eventually). The nearest town is a mile away and has less than 100 people and Fargo is 45 minutes away. Do you think that being a farmer and having means of production, combined with the general lack of population in the area could ensure my safety? What things do you think someone in the position of an owner of fertile land could do to engage people and get them to cooperate?

In a power vacuum, do you think the same types of people will rise to fill the void in rural and urban areas? What first made you go down the rabbit hole of this thought experiment?

Makes sense. In general, do you think it would be easier to salvage what automobiles we can and spend the limited resources at hand maintaining them, or look for new (old) means of transport and labor such as horses and oxen? Thanks so much for your thoughtful insight and replies!

I'll definitely be getting your book. I haven't looked as I'm on a mobile device which frustrates me, but can I buy from the website, or should I look elsewhere?
What modern culture today do you think stands the best bet of surviving an apocalyptic event, disease or otherwise? In the book "DayZ," the North Koreans yanked their citizens teeth and then went into mountain bunkers. That's extreme and I wouldn't consider DPRK a "modern" culture (this aside from a zombie apocalypse being the last thing we have to worry about), but I guess that started making me think about extremes a nation would have to go to in order to prevent the spread of a disease.

DayZ is a book, turned into a movie starring Brad Pitt. It's about the "zombie apocalypse" and the North Korean govt. pulled citizen's teeth in order to prevent the infected from spreading the disease through bites, haha. And that's an interesting thought. Haha, what I was really asking though, is what culture as in people or nation would survive the best. Like the Lapps in Finland or mountain tribe people in Afghanistan or Texans because of guns, land, cattle, and oil.