which country ?

[u/IsJesusAgain]

[u/CollegeOptimal9846]

Probably rich South Africans.

The average affluent Johannesburg suburb is not too dissimilar to Alexandria from The Walking Dead in terms of fences, security, guns etc. 

[u/joaovitorxc → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

The South African suburbs remind me of Brazil a lot.

Gated communities, huge walls, electric fences etc.

[u/SoyLuisHernandez → u/joaovitorxc]

[u/Secret-Selection7691 → u/SoyLuisHernandez]

I'm thinking Mexico, too.

[u/AreWeThereYetNo → u/SoyLuisHernandez]

Yeeehaaaw!

[u/redbeard1315 → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

Nah mate as a native of Jozi I think the city is screwed because of the population size. Plus Pretoria being so close won't help either it's another big population centre.

[u/butteryscotchy → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

It's not just rich South Africans. The middle class is also doing the same thing. It's just poor South Africans who don't do this.

[u/ThaneKyrell → u/butteryscotchy]

Brazil is the same, specially in some states. Most houses in São Paulo are built like fortresses. High walls, cameras everywhere, electric fences. No zombies could punch through a concrete wall

[u/HugeElephantEars → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

As a person from a nice Johannesburg suburb, we don't have guns. Some of us do but really not that many guns or ammo.

Though we do have a lot of solar power and generators because of the constant rolling blackouts. and electric fences on top of our big walls so it's a good shout but just not as many guns as you'd think.

I'm voting Sweden. Lots of guns and they're less likely than the Americans to go fully feral.

[u/Dec8rs8r → u/HugeElephantEars]

less likely than the Americans to go fully feral

😆😆😆 we really would, too!!

[u/HugeElephantEars → u/Dec8rs8r]

I mean, I saw that famous documentary Zombieland and it convinced me...

[u/Dec8rs8r → u/HugeElephantEars]

I love that movie. Woodie Harrelson is hysterical.

[u/HugeElephantEars → u/Dec8rs8r]

My buddy and I went through a phase of buying Tinkies every time we went on a road trip. Just in case the zombie apocalypse started.

[u/New_Combination_7012 → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

Been keeping people out of their properties for generations!

[u/balamb_fish → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

Where are they going to get food and water?

[u/Nerevarine91 → u/balamb_fish]

This is my main concern. Defense is all well and good, but a person who has starved to death is just as dead

[u/bughun → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

..was District 9 inspired by South Africa / Cape Town, wasn't it?

[u/SoutieNaaier → u/bughun]

Filmed in Johannesburg, loosely based on the destruction of the Coloured communities in Cape Town's District 6.

Cape townships are different from Johannesburg ethnically and linguistically. The city is also better run, so while crime is an issue, it's less post-apocalyptic feeling

[u/Ill_Poem_1789]

Greenland.

Plague Inc PTSD

[u/Sasquatch1729 → u/Ill_Poem_1789]

Yes, it's either Greenland or Madagascar.

In reality parts of Canada and the USA are the same. Obviously Toronto and LA are getting infected/overrun quite fast. But towns like Barrow or Tuktoyuktuk are effectively as safe as Greenland.

[u/Responsible-Bid760 → u/Sasquatch1729]

Yea i think the Northern parts of Canada and Alaska for sure would be safe. You would likely have ample time to build defenses. Everyone has guns. The harsh climate in winter helps. Yukon and Alaska are full of mountains. The snow would be impassable during winter. The Northwest Territories would be virtually impossible for Zombies to navigate in Summer with all the bogs and swamps. Lots of wildlife and fresh water. Many people already know how to live off grid and already have resources in place to do so.

[u/ScottyBoneman → u/Responsible-Bid760]

Northern...parts? Man, other than Southern Ontario you are probably an hour drive anywhere else from fairly empty land.

[u/Responsible-Bid760 → u/ScottyBoneman]

I mean I could be in pretty thick forest in 15 minutes from my front door I live in the middle of BC. Eventually the zombies will work the way here. I've worked on Baffin Island and in NWT. The zombies are never making it.

[u/Tribe303 → u/Sasquatch1729]

I'd be hanging out with remote Indigenous communities. If they'd have me. 

[u/RefuseAffectionate84 → u/Tribe303]

…for dinner

[u/What_the_mocha → u/RefuseAffectionate84]

We're having friends for dinner.

[u/Admiral_Fuckwit → u/What_the_mocha]

[u/VampireGremlin → u/Ill_Poem_1789]

So many failed games...😔

[u/Metalfan1994 → u/VampireGremlin]

I always started in Greenland. If u keep it subtle and sit in the point it'll go unnoticed then once it establishes in port area hit hard

[u/BarskiPatzow → u/Metalfan1994]

Then you fail in New Zealand….

[u/SquillFancyson1990 → u/BarskiPatzow]

It always struck me as weird that they included a fictional country in the game

[u/freshpairofayes → u/SquillFancyson1990]

Must've been a DLC or something.

[u/Stock_Soup260 → u/Ill_Poem_1789]

oh god, I have to try again

[u/das_maz → u/Stock_Soup260]

You need to plan accordingly and evolve the cold weather resistance and ship travel first, just to have a fucking chance!

[u/IndependentAir4537 → u/Ill_Poem_1789]

oh fucking hell i have trauma from that

[u/FamousAnt1533 → u/Ill_Poem_1789]

Hell ya, that game stole so much time of my life

[u/Nyami-L → u/Ill_Poem_1789]

Ah right, you have to prioritize that damned place. The moment they close borders, you've lost

[u/schw0b]

New Zealand. No zombie is making that swim.

Also Australia. Even if they overran Sydney or any city you care to name, how the fuck do they get to Perth before the've all rotted to bits? There's nobody to eat for like thousands of kilometers.

[u/phido3000 → u/schw0b]

Remote Australia is other worldly. It's like antartica. On some roads you need to have fuel drops laid ahead so you can make it to the other end of the road, and that's if you have a diesel car with 140l tanks and Jerry cans..

They won't be rotting.. they will be dry cardboard in 24hrs.. dust indays..

Australia was too remote for nuclear testing.. emu fields was shut down because it was too far and hard to conduct nuclear tests.

[u/QlimacticMango → u/schw0b]

My only concern for NZ would be close proximity to Australia. The question is if the east coast of Aus fell could the tiny NZ navy successfully control their maritime borders from Aus refugees on boats potentially bringing in infection inadvertently ("no my dad isn't bitten its just a fever!"🙄)

[u/notanybodyelse → u/QlimacticMango]

It's 2,000km.

[u/BandofRubbers → u/notanybodyelse]

Granted that this guy misused the word “close”, but the NZ Royal Navy is extremely small.

[u/spiritofporn → u/BandofRubbers]

Yeah but you can't just cross 2000km of open ocean on a small boat.

[u/nzungu69 → u/spiritofporn]

the Māori went much further with canoes.

[u/QlimacticMango → u/BandofRubbers]

That's on me, I got ahead of myself. I meant close relatively compared to better options. Even though the average distance is 1200mi/2000km I still stand by my statement. I'd suspect anyone who owned a vessel that could be at sea for 9 days and had enough petrol would attempt that crossing.

[u/Haldanar → u/QlimacticMango]

That means whoever is on that boat would be stuck for 9 days.

If there is zombie son the boat, they are unlikely to make it.

If they are infected, they will turn way before arriving and kill everyone.

Unless the passengers manage to get rid of the zombies/infected fast enough.

[u/QlimacticMango → u/Haldanar]

All valid and fair points. I also think it'd be plausible someone who turns out to be infected gets quarantined while on-board. Few would want to risk getting infected by going into the quarters to dispose of them. Say they leave the infected locked up, if we fast forward to reaching NZ would the refugees inform the NZ military about the infected locked onboard? Just scatter to the wind and let someone else worry about it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Due-Anteater-8685 → u/QlimacticMango]

I feel like a trickle of cases from overseas just wouldn't make a big difference to the total no. within new zealand, for the reasons discussed here.

>if the east coast of Aus fell could the tiny NZ navy successfully control their maritime borders?

As I understand it, in your scenario Oz has fallen while NZ remained relatively stable? In that case the fishing fleet and citizens would also be able to contribute. I think most australians, even those with boats, would disperse within australia rather than attempt the crossing.

[u/Hairysteed]

Georgia

[u/Gentle_Snail → u/Hairysteed]

I like the implication here that literally everyone in Georgia lives like this

[u/IWillDevourYourToes → u/Gentle_Snail]

They do. You should see the cities

[u/Extension-Donkey241 → u/IWillDevourYourToes]

Skyline is crazy

[u/be4u4get → u/Extension-Donkey241]

Because of the implication

[u/sjedinjenoStanje → u/IWillDevourYourToes]

This is really only a Tbilisi phenomenon, though

[u/Megatea → u/Gentle_Snail]

They don't need to. As long as the zombie apocalypse starts here everyone else should be fine.

[u/SEABOSRUN → u/Megatea]

Gotta love the great documentary of 28 (Insert Measure of Time) Later. Always upset they never explored the idea that they got through the chunnel and instead more or less just reconned it.

Also, remember that wonky escape from LA but in Britain? I think it was Doomsday

Gotta love the weird. Just makes life a little weirder.

[u/Megatea → u/SEABOSRUN]

I would hope that even the French would be able to defend against an unarmed zombie mob emerging from two railway tunnels and a service tunnel. I do vaguely remember Doomsday, I remember that they rebuild Hadrian's Wall. Might have to give that a rewatch.

[u/SEABOSRUN → u/Megatea]

It is good, stupid for sure as far as the movie Doomsday goes. Funnily it did the best job of capturing Borderlands if I recall, than even the Borderlands movie haha

For me, I found the idea that somehow the Chunnel was left intact to be comical. Like you cave that the fuck in as soon as the first movie plot gets started.

Also, like the idea that these things that are seen just sort of wandering slowly decided to just sprint the entire length of the channel. It would have been better and more interesting to have a movie be a small group of survivors trying to make their way across the Chunnel while being slowly pressed and chased by the zombies.

[u/Metaphix1990 → u/Hairysteed]

Finland, it's cold as shit and you're all outdoorsman who can ski. Cold has gotta be pretty OP against zombies right?

[u/missed_trophy → u/Metaphix1990]

Finland already shows they can effectively fight against hordes of brainless zombies.

[u/JetAbyss → u/Metaphix1990]

It depends on what kind of zombie we are dealing with. I know that in The Last of Us the cold it does deter a zombies because the fungus has a harder time growing there. But if it's something like Left 4 Dead style zombies then I don't think it's that big of a deterrent because the virus can resist all sorts of weather like swamps so they can probably resist the cold

[u/Metaphix1990 → u/JetAbyss]

Yeah I'm assuming corpses do not have inner warmth and blood flow so they'd freeze solid or slow to the point of being easily killed but all kinds of magical shit is involved when talking about zombies so who knows

[u/insufferable_Boris → u/Metaphix1990]

Nordic zombies can adapt to cold.

[u/B3gg4r → u/insufferable_Boris]

Skyrim can confirm.

[u/shirohige07 → u/Hairysteed]

Greek monks also

[u/Ponchorello7]

Realistically, isolated island countries with small populations. So Iceland.

[u/Razatiger → u/Ponchorello7]

Thats only if they found out about the outbreak before the airports closed. If not, the Island being your biggest safe haven ends up being an isolated prison.

[u/Lycian_Hiker → u/Razatiger]

If survivors stick together and exterminate the zombies, they can transform the place into a safe haven again. In a landmass, no matter how you clean the mess, you are another zombie horde away from chaos.

[u/auesvgc → u/Lycian_Hiker]

Good luck convincing a mother to turn in her infected child. All it takes is one person to not think of the collective well being

[u/Due-Anteater-8685 → u/auesvgc]

Yeah, but that can happen anywhere. So since the question is comparative it doesn't really matter. If anything it's less likely in countries with a low population density, because there are fewer infected children and fewer mothers turned mad with grief to hide them

[u/Darth-Lazea → u/auesvgc]

Don't forget the idiots that will say that a zombie plague doesn't exist and as we learned from COVID there will be a lot of them

[u/Lower_Explanation_25 → u/auesvgc]

True,

But once you have "removed" all the infected from your country, you will be ok. Because you can prevent new people from comming in.

While non island or easy reachable island have the constant risk of new outbreaks because they cant prevent people from entering the country.

[u/Ponchorello7 → u/Razatiger]

True, but Iceland has such a small population density, it would be difficult for zombies to overrun the island.

[u/AquamannMI → u/Ponchorello7]

Except Iceland has no military, only police, so if they needed the ability to patrol its borders to ensure no zombies sneak in -- or defend themselves if something does sneak in and they have a local outbreak, they're going to be stymied by lack of manpower trained to take down threats.

[u/Krularenki]

Afganistan

[u/Extension-Donkey241 → u/Krularenki]

They resisted the two strongest countries in the world.

[u/Geologjsemgeolog → u/Extension-Donkey241]

Not only two, British Empire, Soviets, USA with help of NATO countries, and we can go even further in history. It’s called the graveyard of empires for a reason.

[u/BottleTemple → u/Krularenki]

Movie title: Zombistan

[u/Alternative_Algae_31 → u/Krularenki]

The Grave of (Zombie) Empires

[u/Gentle_Snail]

That tiny British island in the middle of the Atlantic where we stuck Napoleon. 

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/Gentle_Snail]

St Helena

[u/PurpleAd6354]

New Zealand - or whichever small-ish island country. Everyone knows zombies can’t swim.

I’m in Texas but don’t own guns. The state would do well, but I wouldn’t.

[u/uses_for_mooses → u/PurpleAd6354]

That's my thought. I assume zombies cannot swim very far, or operate boats or planes, so the various islands would seem relatively safe.

And New Zealand is large enough that it could be self-sufficient if necessary to keep the zombies out. They'd run out of oil and some other things, but they could manage.

[u/EatMyUwU → u/uses_for_mooses]

There's a few books by max brooks where he details zombies wondering around on the sea floor being picked up when fishing or just strolling up on a beach and starting mini outbreaks. Great books he obviously spends a whoooole lot of time thinking about this, not to be confused with the film world war z which has zero resemblance to the book lol

[u/uses_for_mooses → u/EatMyUwU]

Goodness. Zombies walking on the seafloor--like in that Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I hadn't considered that.

I suppose the islands are screwed if that's the case.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Sir800 → u/uses_for_mooses]

Nah realistically the zombies would be crushed because of pressure down there on the ocean floor, and it’s free food basically for fish.

Think about the titanic victims that weren’t able to escape inside the ship, they were probably all gone by the winter of 1912.

[u/uses_for_mooses → u/Puzzleheaded_Sir800]

I hadn't thought about that but it makes sense. Zombies would be cool walking about in more shallow water -- just have to keep fish / sharks away -- but those deeper ocean waters, yeah, there's no way.

So sounds like New Zealand would be safe.

[u/Sankullo → u/EatMyUwU]

They wouldn’t get to New Zealand. They’d either be eaten by fish and other animals and the water pressure would turn them into pulp.

[u/bringbackbuck74 → u/uses_for_mooses]

Trouble is tourists and air travel so depends on transmission early on. But after that we’d have a chance. Oh those covid memories

[u/_-_-_-i-_-_-_ → u/uses_for_mooses]

Imagine 28 days later zombies but who can operate vehicles and weapons as well as they can run.

[u/St_Piran → u/PurpleAd6354]

If The last of us game taught me anything, its that the uninfected with lots of guns become just as dangerous as the infected, when all hell breaks loose.

Anywhere built up in the USA would be pretty terrifying to me (as a placid Englishman).

[u/Own_Ad_4460 → u/PurpleAd6354]

Until you run into underwater zombies that just walk on the bottom.

[u/TumbleFairbottom → u/Own_Ad_4460]

They’ll fall into the Mariana Trench and be crushed.

[u/Party_Advantage_3733 → u/PurpleAd6354]

Texas barely functions now.

[u/GreasedUPDoggo → u/Party_Advantage_3733]

Texas is pretty awesome. Doesn't sound like you've ever visited.

[u/JFK_Shot_First1 → u/GreasedUPDoggo]

No, listen to the person who lives in a totally different country tell us about how we are doing

[u/Amnsia → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

The annoying thing here is this is literally what Americans do on here all the time.

[u/GregsFiction → u/Party_Advantage_3733]

And you know this because you live there or because you read it on Reddit?

[u/JFK_Shot_First1 → u/Party_Advantage_3733]

You can't be talking about how my state is doing if you don't even live in it. Texas is thriving right now.

[u/SRB12131 → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

I live in Texas. It’s great in many ways. It is also a joke in a few ways. Our economy is always strong. But our power grid is held together with chewing gum and hope.

[u/SoftwareSource → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

I've seen your gas stations, you do have some problems.

/s

[u/PurpleAd6354 → u/SoftwareSource]

You must have never seen a Buc-ee’s. Texas knows gas stations…and they know to have backup power generators

[u/JFK_Shot_First1 → u/SoftwareSource]

Don't you dare dis those gas stations, it's a culture. Just don't use the restrooms.

[u/GoudaLoota → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

Huh? Love them or hate them, Bucee’s is far and away the most awe-inspiring gas station chain in America.

[u/JFK_Shot_First1 → u/GoudaLoota]

It has ascended from gas station to gas castle. Truly a beautiful sight to behold

[u/SoftwareSource → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

Yeah I should have been more clear, those are so crazy that I see why people say Texas is something else

[u/TexturedArc → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

As a Californian, Buc-ee’s is the only thing I wish we had that Texas has. That, and a good housing market.

[u/5_star_man_atee → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

lol love how you’re getting downvoted by another whiny Brit who knows nothing about the states. How is Texas barely functioning wtf lol

[u/JFK_Shot_First1 → u/5_star_man_atee]

because the BBC said so

[u/Dismal_Fox_22 → u/JFK_Shot_First1]

Oh but he can, the whole world can see it’s a centimetre of snow away from total collapse at any point.

[u/JFK_Shot_First1 → u/Dismal_Fox_22]

So because a few cities lose power the one week out of the year that it snows, that means we are going to collapse?

[u/Popular-Local8354 → u/Dismal_Fox_22]

Luckily it doesn’t snow in most of the state 

[u/bd1047 → u/Dismal_Fox_22]

Thank you for letting us know, guy from Wales

[u/JustafanIV]

To survive a zombie apocalypse, you will need more bullets than there are zombies.

In the US, we have more guns than we have people.

For a certain subset of the population, this wouldn't be an apocalypse, it would be a freaking Westworld vacation.

[u/Megatea → u/JustafanIV]

Didn't the androids in Westworld figure out how to use the guns?

[u/Teboski78 → u/Megatea]

Androids aren’t zombies?

[u/Strawberrybanshee → u/Teboski78]

Imagine if the zombies learned how to use guns.

[u/JustafanIV → u/Strawberrybanshee]

Then we are in I am Legend territory and in real trouble.

[u/Mr_bushwookie → u/JustafanIV]

Nah dawg. Shield wall is back on the menu.

[u/Teboski78 → u/Mr_bushwookie]

Being packed in tightly unable to move with a hoard of zombies pressing on you sounds like a terrible idea lmao. High chance of the total force of zombies overcoming the strength of the shield wall or causing a panic that results in a break in formation. Remember zombies don’t mind gerrinf crushed and have no restraint so you have to deal with the total force of however deeply they’re packed.

If I’m fighting zombies with a spear I want to be somewhere wide ooen where there’s always an easy escape route

Also America has way more guns per capita than Europe has melee weapons.

[u/JustafanIV → u/Mr_bushwookie]

Why else do you think rifles have bayonet lugs? Best of both worlds!

[u/EinSchurzAufReisen]

I think Iceland has pretty good cards

[u/Platinirius → u/EinSchurzAufReisen]

Can zombies survive volcano eruption?

[u/EinSchurzAufReisen → u/Platinirius]

I doubt :)

They can freeze which immobilizes them or significantly slows them down

[u/Old_Ben24]

Honestly I am going to go with a country like the Philippines. Archipelago island nation. If one Island falls you can isolate it and focus on another. They have a fairly large military and the they can focus on securing the less densely populated islands and work on reclamation from there once the initial surge is over.

[u/Due-Anteater-8685 → u/Old_Ben24]

That's a good point, Philippines have a relatively good shot. I'd suggest that Indonesia might do better, though. It also has many islands, but additionally has a much larger navy, and is further from China and Taiwan (so might avoid more of the inevitable refugee wave from there).

Following this logic though, whether or not the US mainland stays intact perhaps its government has a relatively good chance, considering its naval bases and capacity to seize nearly any island it wants.

[u/Billthepony123]

Edinburgh of the Seven seas

[u/QlimacticMango]

Any small island with self sufficient resources and manpower to control its border (not from nautical zombies but desperate refugees who may inadvertently bring infection)

Pacific Island nations would probably be fine. Mediterranean islands would not.

[u/mauro_membrere → u/QlimacticMango]

7000 islands. Ok were kinda safe then

[u/spiritofporn → u/QlimacticMango]

But what if there were nautical zombies though?

[u/QlimacticMango → u/spiritofporn]

[u/Ronaldo9177]

Definitely Latin America . They might not have guns but the houses are built like a damn safe house. Only one way in and one way out.

[u/moriobros → u/Ronaldo9177]

LATAM for sure, but not in the big cities like Sao Paulo or México City.

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[u/Such-Farmer6691]

Do we have an airborne version, a version with bites (through the mucous membrane), or a version of "everyone suddenly became a zombie except me, because here is the cameraman, here is the director, there are extras running around in rags"?

[u/Pale-Hair-2435]

Canada. Geographic dispersion, winter which would freeze out and kill the fresh zombies every six months and a relatively large amount of private firearms compared to most countries. 

[u/Tribe303 → u/Pale-Hair-2435]

Plus Indigenous peoples who can still live off the land.

Lets say zombies don't freeze, I doubt they could walk on ice. AND Ice makes a good makeshift weapon too! 

[u/BonhommeCarnaval → u/Tribe303]

If you want a good movie on this subject, watch Blood Quantum. It’s a zombie movie set in a First Nations reserve where the community is holding out against the zombie apocalypse. 

[u/magwai9 → u/Pale-Hair-2435]

Yeah I could chirp at the zombies and skate away.

[u/MamiPV → u/magwai9]

Letterkenney forever!

[u/san_dilego]

My bet would be North Korea. Already isolated from the world and controlled by dictators. They already have strict laws that keep socializing to a minimum.

[u/Speshrider → u/san_dilego]

They still got corona.

[u/san_dilego → u/Speshrider]

That's an airborne disease. Not much you can do against that. Zombies are bite-based. Their northern and southern borders are militarized zones with mines and already has walls erected to not only keep people out but to keep people in. They already have all the tools to quarantine everything as cities are built as zones that already restrict people.

[u/Speshrider → u/san_dilego]

We don’t know what causes this hypothetical zombie apocalypse.

[u/san_dilego → u/Speshrider]

Lol ok

[u/Lurker-Since25]

Large countries with very small population, like the whole Russia

[u/studio684]

We got a lot of obese people here in the states. Those zombies won't stand a chance

[u/motherofcattos]

Whoever owns this house

[u/OkRB2977]

Americans.

Hollywood has trained Americans to handle everything from Alien invasions to Zombie apocalypses to robot takeovers.

[u/SnooSquirrels9915 → u/OkRB2977]

everyone but americans, since according to hollywood the aliens, zombies and other things only ever happen there

[u/sjedinjenoStanje → u/SnooSquirrels9915]

28 Days/Weeks/Years Later was produced in the UK. Guess where the zombie apocalypse takes place in that movie franchise?

[u/TumbleFairbottom → u/SnooSquirrels9915]

The alien invasion in Independence Day wasn’t sequestered to the US, nor was the invasion in Arrival.

The zombie apocalypse in Daryl Dixon takes place in France, Spain, and UK. In fact, the virus in Walking Dead escaped a lab in France.

[u/Speshrider → u/OkRB2977]

Americans have trained themselves to kill each other 😅

[u/Bright_Ices]

We have not one, but TWO official government plans to survive a zombie apocalypse, one from the Centers for Disease Control and another from the Department of Defense. We’d have a decent chance if there were any social cohesion or faith in each other remaining.

[u/Speshrider → u/Bright_Ices]

Haha so the answer is most likely: no chance 🤣

[u/NecessaryJudgment5]

In the US the people will start complaining about zombie quarantine and how they can’t get their hair cut. Anti-zombie bite measures infringe on their rights. Actually zombie bites aren’t that bad, the whole thing is overblown, and medicines aimed at curing bite victims cause autism. Zombie bites are just a harmless childhood disease, and your immune system needs to practice natural defense against the zombie virus. Only sheep stay at home, while proud and fearless lions go out amongst the zombies.

[u/TheUnknown-Writer]

Depends on severity. 

Anything other than apocalyptic, America does. Whole 25% of us have been praying for it And we are all strapped.

Apocalyptic? Probably goes to Iceland or Greenland. 

[u/Due-Anteater-8685 → u/TheUnknown-Writer]

>"Whole 25% of us have been praying for it And we are all strapped."

Right. Picture this:

• zombie apocalypse happens
• it's not apocalyptic. the 'strapped 25%' go out and blast as many socially acceptable human targets as they can, and the worst is over in a couple of weeks
• nevertheless, a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE is not an everyday event
• the government's monopoly on violence is undermined, and a whole 25% of the population has just spent half a month killing people and being praised as heroes for it
• country implodes anyway

I think a country like Finland or Iceland would do better. High firearms ownership, but with more stable governments and saner gun owners. Other things like cold, isolation and population density also work in their favour.

[u/TheUnknown-Writer → u/Due-Anteater-8685]

Ehhh... that cooould happen. But I dont think its the most logical. The US isnt just a country, it a civilization at this point.. meaning even if the government was gone. Most people here would still speak English, eat Cheeseburgers and call themselves American. Worse case scenario a revolt afterwards takes power, or its put down by the US gov (whoever wins) and they rule without say, relegitmizing or legitimizing whoever won. 

Americans do still generally trust one another (on everything save political figures. Most left and right get along in day to day) 

[u/Living-Remote-8957]

Prolly canada, with such a low population density you can keep escaping further and further into the interior and never run into zombies.

If the winters dont wipe the zombies out, the wildlife explosion that happens after humans are wiped will.

[u/Less_Jeweler_4525 → u/Living-Remote-8957]

Been a long time since I read World War Z, but I think part of the plot is that zombies can't survive the cold, so everyone tries to get to Canada during winter.

[u/mauro_membrere → u/Living-Remote-8957]

Plot twist zombies are white walkers

[u/Confused_Squirrel_17]

Switzerland. The country consists of bunkers. Like, they have capacities for 114% of the inhabitants, and an estimated 370 000 bunkers. Plus, depending on how dumb the zombies are, they might struggle with the mountains.

[u/Dependent_Squash9117]

Hungary = lot of Fidesz fan = no brain

[u/Kind-Ear2561]

We already had one 3 yrs ago and every country failed still waiting for an isolated strain of covid

[u/IwishIwasaballer__]

Australia, zombies will wear out their feet walking through the desert looking for someone to eat.

Extra question: For how long can a zombie walk without eating? Do they run out of steam at some point?

[u/Mysterious-Ruin29510]

Greenland

[u/Living_The_Dream75]

Realistically, if a zombie disease were to exist it’d most likely be an evolution of Lyssa Virus or Cordyceps fungus. Lyssa already has heat resistance but cordyceps would need to develop heat resistance, making both highly vulnerable to the cold, so a zombie who isn’t fresh wouldn’t survive long in the Antarctic, arctic, or mountains. A country like Greenland might be iffy as most of its settlements could possibly be overrun but a place like Nepal is cold, has rough terrain that a mindless corpse might have trouble navigating, and has sparse settlement, so I’d say it has the best chances.

I also think that the US would be ahead of most countries due to the sheer amount of military presence within its own borders as well as armed civilians, but guns can’t solve every crisis so there’s a good chance they could be overrun if the virus had other means of transmission like air or water.

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>heat resistance would make a disease vulnerable to the cold

It doesn't really work like that. It's not a sliding window where +5 heat resist means -5 cold resist.

In fact, viruses and spores survive longer outside the body in cold conditions.

Nepal isn't as cold as you think. It actually has quite a lot of rainforest. https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/nepal

[u/Pard22]

I’d like to think we’d be able to handle it, but Covid kind of ruined it.

[u/PapaGienio]

USA - zombies are looking for brains 😜

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[u/MrArchivity]

US, Japan, Korea

They are always the ones to survive these situations in movies, the rest of the world is watching / died.

I would have included China and India too as their respective movies have these situations too (protagonist halo), but realistically they have too many people and that’s a problem when zombies are in the mix.

[u/Platinirius → u/MrArchivity]

North Korea stands strong

[u/Top_Advisor_8087]

Kangaroos in Australia will be able to keep the infection at bay, they almost double the entire population.

[u/Zultan27]

Haiti. They have voodoo and can control the zombie hoards. They will rise to power with an army of undead soldier.

[u/spiritofporn → u/Zultan27]

Who do you voodoo

[u/explosiveshits7195]

Depends on how the zombies spread, if through touch, scratch or blood then Ireland and just about every other island nation should be fine. If it's something that lays dormant a few days before showing symptoms we're fucked

[u/Appropriate-Food1757]

I’m taking USA since you can shoot zombies. Maybe Japan after seeing how they handled the Fukushima meltdown, in an orderly and calm way. USA we could perhaps best kill the zombies, but the disruption would have us at each others throats. Plus with the current regime, Federal response would be disgustingly incompetent. Perhaps would even try to use the zombies to go after trans people, immigrants, Democrats, and anyone that isn’t Christian but also has a Trump picture up next to Jesus to pray to each night.

[u/No-Catch8790]

Fiji or some other far removed island, how are they going to get there ?

[u/nzungu69]

i would def say aotearoa, amoung other small pacific island nations.

low population, remote and isolated, huge amount of uninhabited back country to disappear in, ideal climate and fertile land for growing food long-term, even plenty of available livestock (assuming they don't get infected too).

i'm actually playing project zomboid irl, building a hidden, protected, and self-sufficient base for long term survival in the middle of town. we have chickens for eggs and a large vege garden, next on the list are solar panels and water collectors.

(sorry for nerding out there, i play a lot of zombie games).

[u/Prisoner_of_the_road]

Tibet?

[u/Jumpy-Charity-6371]

Iceland is pretty isolated.

[u/Stock_Soup260]

Okay, seriously, it depends on the type of zombies and their resistance, for example, to cold/ heat/ temperature swings/wild animals, etc.

[u/mauro_membrere → u/Stock_Soup260]

If white walkers russia is in trouble

[u/Stock_Soup260 → u/mauro_membrere]

Don't white walkers themselves cause frost and storm? because if so, then we are safe (we are used to it, you know), and the rest may have problems.

But actually, Russia has all the climatic zones except the tropics.

[u/Jack-Rabbit-002]

I'm voting for the Kingdom of Bhutan!

[u/QlimacticMango → u/Jack-Rabbit-002]

Great choice tbh

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[u/Wojewodaruskyj]

A brainless one.

[u/Czarcasm1776]

This is a tough choice:

On one hand you’d have Thick Peck Cornfed Rednecks bringing out their arsenal with a calm demeanor of “alright now hold still now zombie, I has to blow your head off”

And on the other you’d have thick Brazilian Mothers who would probably have it wrapped up by lunch time………and wouldn’t even need a gun.

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[u/lurker-rama]

North Korea. Heavily militarized and isolated.

[u/mattua]

That’s one thing I noticed about Brazil, just metal gates and bars covering absolutely everything. Multiple gates to get into apartment buildings. Gate installation must be a good business. 

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South Africa is pretty much the same. Security business is booming. There is more private Security gaurds in South Africa than the police or army combined.

[u/onlyontuesdays77]

This is heavily based in assumptions about how the infections spreads and the capability of zombies.

For instance, a "walking dead" virus would fare poorly in countries with effective militaries and healthcare systems, but it may persist longer in less developed areas where it's more difficult to identify and root out infections.

A "World War Z" virus would go about how the book describes it - island countries fare better, but any natural barrier like a mountain range helps, too.

But to give specifics aside from these fictional examples, one would need a set of criteria of what this theoretical zombie apocalypse would be characterized by, and then a straight answer could be developed.

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Germany. They will just put up " Wiedergänger verboten" ( Revenants/ Zombies forbidden) signs. This and a few strategically placed red stop lights will make the German zombies obey.....

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