[palmotea]

> Having a government in a box when everyone around you is scrounging for food makes you king, particularly if you also managed to save a couple militarized drones through the collapse. That's a pretty enviable position to be in.

Come the fuck on. A fucking 8-bit computer (even a fucking 64-bit computer) is not a fucking "government in a box." And where the fuck are you going to get your "couple militarized drones"? Assuming they're not suicide drones (where "a couple" is not much), how long will they last? How useless would they be without spare parts, maintenance, and ammunition?

We live in the fucking real world, not some videogame where you can find a goddamn robot in a cave still functioning after 500 years and lethal enough for a boss-battle.

> You will not have petrol in a post-collapse world, so better hope it's an electric tractor, or drop a scavenged electric motor + EV battery into an existing tractor. Use scavenged solar panels for power, there's plenty of that where I am.

Look: if they don't have petrol, they won't have battery factories either. Batteries wear out. Your fantasy electric tractor will be just as useless a petrol one in short order.