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New Zealand

For a number of reasons, New Zealand is the strongest candidate for post-global decomplexification survival, researchers say.

With a low population and abundant agricultural potential, New Zealand also has high levels of renewable energy resources—all of which make it a good candidate for resiliency. The country has vigorous hydroelectric and geothermal power that it utilizes, as well as the potential to tap into solar and on/offshore wind energy. At the same time, the island also enjoys fairly good weather—a “temperate, oceanic climate with abundant precipitation,” which helps foster its vast stretches of “abundant agricultural land,” researchers write. Plus the sheep. Don’t forget all the sheep.

All of these factors explain why cadres of ghoulish billionaires are currently wasting exorbitant sums buying up underground bunkers in the region—as if, when society implodes, they won’t be the first to perish from the exertion and indignation of it all.

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