If they can't swim, I think the Netherlands would do surprisingly well, especially since the country has been known to intentionally create floods during invasions
And the canals, rivers, lakes, the lake I'd rather not call a lake(IJssel meer) and the Wadden sea can hold back alot of zombies ofc. You would be safe, especially on idk Texel, or Vlieland
As a Brazilian, almost all houses here are surrounded by walls, electric fences and broken glass bottles to stop invasions, along with guns. I don't think zombies would do very well in Brazil
Ele é gringo não ia saber sobre esse fato que milhares de casas no Brasil tem muros altos, cercas elétricas, aquelas cacos de vidro em cima do muro, muitos tem arma em casa. Cada casa com esses atributos vira uma mini fortaleza.
Well, he is not measuring the impact of air travel in the earlier phases nor the subsequent collapse in international trade, so even if they would do great on their own, a lot of island countries will likely starve to death, quite literally while others like Japan won't be able to make effective use of their army because of the lack of fuel (I'm counting taking over foreign oil fields against the isolation bonus) But yes, based on his criteria, something like Cuba would have a perfect score. Small island, large army with a bunch of tanks and armored vehicles, and used to isolation and sanctions.
New Zealand geography would be harder for zombies to navigate than Australia's. We have lots of mountains, rivers and hills. Australia has a couple of mountain ranges and some big rivers but a lot of it -- especially where people live -- is pretty open and flat. Once the zombies get to Aussie, they'd really need to bring out the military to defend them. Whereas NZ would have a slightly better time keeping them at bay.
additonally, the difference in the amount of guns per person, NZ would have an easy time holding off zombies, probably killing them before they became a huge horde
And theres the southern island that is much less populated, the NZ government could start a project there to build housing and find a good fortified area and start moving citizens there, But ya with NZ's awesome climate and relatively harmless wild life (so harmless many birds decided to give up flying) I would say it is the best place to be, whether its an apocalypses or not; but im from Canada and don't know much about NZ so there are definitely things i dont know that would make it more of an obstacle then I currently think, like the lack of maple trees and thus a lack of maple syrup, but i hear golden syrup is a thing so idk?
Zombies: Takes over Iran. Zombies: Turns back into human, speaks Persian, and makes carpets. World: How did you do that? Iran: Anyone who invades Iran becomes Iran.
@@cosmos1487while they wouldn't feel the cold the cold would still freeze their bodies making it impossible for them to move it might freeze them in a way that they'll survive until they thaw out but it could also end up killing every single cell in their body.
Brazilian houses are literal fortresses against zombies, most have high outer brick/cement walls instead of fences, they also have barbed wire/electric fences on top of outer walls, in lower end neighborhoods broken glass bits in top of these same walls, and metal gates. higher end houses even have security cameras and automatic gates, the same applies to apartment buildings So Brazil might do a little better. The safest place certainly however, could be the Fernando de Noronha archipelago
Drew, Russia would be pretty strong in a zombie apocalypse because: 1:Siberia, lets say China is the place where the apocalypse started, they wont be able to attack Russia because of Siberia. Its very cold and it has a low population density 2.they have many tanks 3.Ural mountains are gonna be a pain for zombies, so Moscow is deffended 4.Russia can survive on its own 5.If there would be zombie animals Russia would be a good place to live because, musquitos would be far more dangerous than zombies And for people that say that zombies dont feel pain and cannot die of the cold temperatures of Siberia, well let me explain Zombies have working brains because if they wouldn't had they could not move at all The brain needs blood so it can work And blood can freeze So zombies cannot survive the freezing cold of Siberia
I don't think the Russian military is gonna be able to stop hundreds of millions of desperate Chinese trying to flee to Siberia away from the chinese coast, unless they use nukes to kill refugees.
I feel like one thing that is also very important here is culture. How well do people follow government orders (like covid pandemic distance & isolation rules), how strong is the social safety system, either from family ties or government support, how important is staying/visiting/ taking care of your family instead of leaving them to die.
It's not just fences. Most houses have brick walls between the front door and the sidewalk of your street, the only entrance being usually metal gates. The zombies also wouldn't be able to climb since most houses have either eletric fences, barbed wire or sharp objects in the top of the walls. There are even images where you can see houses with homemade protection like broken glass, so I think staying inside would still be safe in Brazil. The main problem is: how would people leave to find food, water and other resources to survive, since the zombies would probably be smart enough to just wait outside? I think Brazil being in C tier is fair enough, but it could be in B too
POV: People are just minding they're own business in the Balkans (fighting each other) and suddenly a zombie apocalypse breaks out. What's they're secret weapon? Use the zombies to attack each other
the coast of Brazil is extremely mountainous and the amazon basin is separated from the rest of the country by a high plateau so it is not so easy to leave the amazon for the rest of the country and the rivers in the amazon are very wide
I myself think it would be more likely for the zombie pandemic to start on the coast and spread to the countryside rather than the contrary. The coast is to populous and to dense, and I think we Brazilians would end up underestimating the problem until it got too big for us to handle.
Virtually all our houses have electrified fences/ barbed wire/ broken glass all on top of walls here in Brazil, plus our houses are made of brick and other sturdy materials. I think it would be quite harder for the zombies to do well here. Edit: Also the amazon has very little people, so i doubt a lot of zombies would accumulate there (that's without even mentioning how hard it is to traverse it)
I find slightly ironic how Drew compares the Zombies he’s Talking about most closely to the 28 Days later zombies, when he should obviously be doing Andjobe Zombies
Yea but 90% of Russians are in the west flat plains and the only mountains in Russia are in Siberia I think russia would fall super fast but it would take a lot of time for Siberia to fall maybe the Russians just flee to the northeast
@Ben-fp2yc you can ignore a bear but the bear won't ignore you. Same things with cold, you can still freeze. Thing of a car who can't start cause of the cold
I think the fact that Alberta has been able to keep rats out of the province for 70 years should give points to Canada if they could spread those tactics to the entire country and apply it zombies
Some interesting countries for this scenario, that you didn't mention could be: Finland, India, Norway, Indonesia, any carribian nation or territory, Mexico, Slovakia, Ethiopia, Czechia, Italy, Georgia, France, the Phillipines and Chile. You could also try to include regions like the Tibetan highlands or Patagonia
not very accurate for Brazil, the houses are very secure and usually have walls or high fences, which would hold the zombies pretty well, besides that, if people using their brains can't enter too deep in the amazon, the zombies wouldn't have a single chance
Plus, they would either decompose ultra fast due to the humid and hot climate, starve to death or be eaten or teared by the wildlife. Or all of the three at once.
You should have included climate as a consideration. Extreme climates would help a lot. In very cold areas (Norway, Siberia etc.) the Zombies would freeze, in very hot climates (pick a desert country) they'd dry out and crumble and in Tropical areas (The Amazon, Congo etc.) they'd probably rot very quickly. Temperate to warm countries (areas where most people live) would fair the worst due to the Zombies lasting longer.
I understand this drew even if Poland isn't good nation to be in if the zombie apocalypse is happening. It's good to have a polish person on your team (btw watch geography now Poland).
Brazil would be abysmal for a zombie apocalypse. Population lacks weapons, very densely populated, massive land territory that is just undefendable. Have you ever seen the pictures of beaches in rio? They’d be fucked
Brazil's escarpment might help protect their coastal population centers from zombies coming through the rainforest/interior of the country but not as much as somwthing like a mountain range.
A good tactic I think would work would be using loudspeakers or drones to cluster up zombie hordes and take them out with artillery, air support, and missiles since zombies are generally attracted to loud noises and aren’t smart.
Personally I'd just take one of the largest cherry pickers from work and drive along with my platform basket elevated around 9 or 10 feet above ground level. I'd have speakers if needed to play the loudest drum and bass possible and roll over the zombies as they emerged, with 360 open vision, much more than a tank, to use arms as needed.
You should do the reverse and rank which country would be the best country for the virus to start in based on inescapability, military, predicted death toll and that countries reaction to Covid
The issue with putting USA in a low tier is that half the country would be perfectly fine on their own, and cities would be protected with the national guard. Don't forget that Georgia is home of the CDC, along with a huge budget for medical research across the whole country, so if there is any sort of cure or vaccine, USA would have the best bet. The USA also has vast mountains on certain regions to slow down any hordes. It really just comes down to "behind every blade of grass", where the USA has a heavily armed civilian population that would be able to hold off even in small towns on their own.
i think gunownership and collapse of the state would be a bigger problem than the zombies tbh. just imagine all those preppers living their dream + immediate collapse of the economy (in every country)
The thing is, no country on Earth would survive long with the economy collapsing. Our whole damn world is too connected. Because of its size America can recover and take care of its own, but I think a majority of the population will die first.
In my comment I said the same thing about a gun behind every blade of grass but also added that we had one of if not the most powerful military in the world. Lol or the military will never see the apocalypse if you give a group of rednecks a unlimited supply of ammo and beer and fuel for their trucks 😂
The opposite is true, that's why I think the amazon would be actually horrible for zombies, all of the mosquitos and other animals feeding off of their rotting corpses would destroy their bodies so much they become non-functional. Zombies survive very well in the cold because that sort of stuff doesn't really happen.
@@b0redom782 but the are human bodies and with nothing to heat them to human temperatures the water in them would expand destroying tissue and cracking bones also stiffening the body making it impossible to move
A few tough pills to swallow for Swissboos: -the bunkers are a meme, most of them were decomissioned and sold almost 30 years ago. -the gun ownership is misleading, most of that is people doing their military service over 15 years (they keep the weapon when at home). Said military service consists mostly of drinking beer and walking. -the easy to defend alps are not home to most of Switzerland's population, or most of its agriculture. -in general Switzerland is relatively poor in some key ressources like food and energy. -the vast majority of Swiss people (including yours truly) are privileged city dwellers working in the tertiary sector. And you don't really need bankers, watch salesmen or webdesigners in the zombie apocalypse.
Air superiority wouldn't be too useful, but it would still have many uses, like sending small amounts of helicopters or bombers to stop hordes from forming , and big hordes would be prime targets for bombers.
Brazilian here. I believe Brazil deserves a better ranking. While your point on defending the Amazon being difficult it is also true that, since there are no animal zombies, the zombies will also have a lot of trouble going through the forest and not being killed by animals, as well as drowning or rotting faster because of the humidity and hot temperatures. Furthermore there are a lot of elevations in the terrain which separate the rest of the country. That being said, probably the infection would start in the coast which is very dense in population. The part that probably would do better would be the northeast because of the dry biome and less population density than the rest of the coast. Also our military is extremely good at dealing with the jungle, and the special police would deal with the favelas very well as well. We are overall a very hard country to invade and totally conquer for several geographic and other reasons. Also another problem for us is the reliance on foreign trade, but we also have lots of natural resources to survive if need be.
I doubt zombies lost in the Amazon would be able to find each other to assemble a horde, much less find a place where people live. This would only be likely if a settlement was overrun, then it would still be relatively few people and the jungle can be a fortress in itself, as well as a zombie trying to cross a river might be extremely difficult with a zombie arriving where it wants on the other side.
Seria impossível atravessar a Amazônia, rios muito largos, clima extremamente quente e úmido, área muito grande pra atravessar a pé. Seria mais fácil os zumbis começarem no litoral do que na Amazônia, fora que vivem pouco mais de 20 milhões de pessoas na Amazônia, pouco e espalhado pro tamanho da região e pra chegar no litoral há grandes montanhas.
If there was an island nation as sanctioned as North Korea, it would be untouched by zombies under the zombie conditions in this video. Also the temperature can also be a factor, flesh decays faster in hotter climates so that also favours Australia particularly in the centre & north nearer the equator.
7:10 I would be mad but at this I must agree, we have only mountains in the south and sea in the north, and every thing else is flat plains with many lakes.
Drew doesn't talk about Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines: meanwhile Indonesian, Malaysian and Filipinos: *sad Indonesian, Malaysian and Filipino noises*
Yea and in my opinion the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia (mostly the first two) could solo the zombies, like the Philippines when zombies appear would just evacuate from the one island what was infected then hurricanes would come and destroy them and if it doesn’t completely, the Filipino army would just come in and finish them off.
I mean it also depends on what time of the year the apocalypse starts for instance if the vast majority of the outbreak happens in early spring they have God knows how many months to get across the country and while Russia is known for being cold like here in Canada I know it's Summers can get extremely hot. I mean it said that Napoleon lost at least a quarter of his men to heat stroke when he invaded Russia
That's the thing with Zombies. Even if they were something that could exist (which they can't because they violate the laws of thermodynamics) they'd not get very far in any outbreak. After an initial shock, the cooperative intelligence of human society would click in to contain them. Any zombies not mopped up by control squads will quickly be broken down into dust and slime by the ever-voracious biosphere. After a couple of years, pests and microbes will have rid the world of any zombie still writhing. The most destructive part of an outbreak would never be the zombies themselves, it would be the breakdown of the global economy causing mass resource shortages and famine.
Hi drew, I think your thinking about this all wrong. Many countries wouldn't defend at their border but retreat to major rivers. I could see if the zombies were in western europe germany could simply retreat to the rhine and hold their. They would be safe from the south because no way switzerland falls. In the east they have the sudentland and in poland they could hold at the vistula
I'm from Malta and in this situation I don't know where we would place. On one hand we are a small island full of existing fortress and walled cites with decent gun ownership. On the other hand we have one of the highest population densities, limited resources and possibly the worst army.
I think that Czech republic would be kind of a save place because it is defended by mountains from almost every direction and also it still have the line of bunkers all over the borders from second world war and they are still funcional.
It would be interesting to see a world where mainland Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America all fall to the zombies Leaving the UK, Japan, Australia and Indonesia as the most powerful countries and they have to figure out how to retake the lost land
Switzerland should be straight S-tier, because in addition to having a well-thought out interior defense plan, they also mandate all citizens age 18-30 take ~200 days of military training and then join the reserves, keeping their gear at home in case of a sudden attack. Additionally, the Swiss Alps are pockmarked with camouflaged bunkers from which soldiers can shoot zombies with little to no danger on their part. Basically Switzerland is just an entire country of zombie survivalists.
You should absolutely go for a state tier list...I think the west overall would do better than the east, especially states like Colorado and Montana, states known for preppers...
The only country in mainland europe other than switzerland that I think would do well is Finland. Finland is fortified so well for a zombie-type invasion, they could probably just wait it out.
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I think China should be A because the deserts in the west and north, and the mountains in the southwest and south. Aside from these natural barriers, most Chinese live on the coast, and zombies can’t swim to reach there. Then the mountains and deserts would hold them back for enough time for the military to deploy weapons at the zombies. In other words, China is pretty safe.
We do know that zombies main weakness is the heat. The hotter a place is quicker the corpses decompose. So, flamethrowers and fireworks are your best friend, because the increase heat accelerates decomposition process. Maybe alongside homemade bombs and propane tanks.
I think syberia will survive for very very long time. Walking dead's zombies can't even go to our roads because they're so horrible specially while and after winter. Also on winters zombies will not come through so much snow, also in the beginning of infection we can survive in apartments with strong 2 metal doors in our entrance for a few days, so i think there will be not so much zombies in the beginning. Our winters lasts for like 5 months And our population density is low
I feel like Russia might actually fare okay because its so cold half the time that the zombies would just freeze since they have no warm clothing or way of heating themselves up
you’re forgetting IFVs and other military stuff. IFVs would be so much better then a tank in a zombie apocalypse because they are literally designed to take on lightly armoured people. things like helicopters and artillery would also decimate zombies in an urban environment also, consider flamethrowers and the fact that since zombies aren’t human we can commit war crimes against them
Island imports would be a problem for countries like Japan. The population is too big they’d run out of resources pretty fast. Iceland on the other hand has rich arctic waters to fish from and a low population. Would be interesting to factor in natural disasters, a place like Bangladesh with lots of flooding, that could actually help?
I would put the US in top tier, they have a tendency to not care about civilian casualties, nor their own population, they would easily come out on top. I would also give cold countries a big plus, since viruses and stuff tend to not like the cold so much.
I think the USA is a tier cause we have a lot of guns Sure we use the guns to shoot eachother but i think in terms of a zombie apocalypse, nearly everyone will be able to access a weapon.
another reason that air superiority is not the best during a zombie apocalypse is bc air superiority is fighter jets and stuff like that not bombing or attack so it won't be necessary until a zombie finds leaked documents from war thunder
It's a good thing Drew eliminated zombie animals from consideration, or Australia's score would instantly drop because of emu zombies.
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Imagine the horror of seeing zombie Kangaroos hopping around
Giant zombie SPIDERS.
Ooh, good observation, but for that to happen, the virus would have to be compatible with their dna and ours simultaneously
And New Zealand or teh laser kiwis will get upgraded with infection laser
If they can't swim, I think the Netherlands would do surprisingly well, especially since the country has been known to intentionally create floods during invasions
And the canals, rivers, lakes, the lake I'd rather not call a lake(IJssel meer) and the Wadden sea can hold back alot of zombies ofc. You would be safe, especially on idk Texel, or Vlieland
I totally agree with you 2
You can't invade the Netherlands if there are no Netherlands 🥴🥴
And you will disappear if you’re in Netherlands when Netherlands disappear
@@tiaelago-oretukaumunika7017 Neitherlands :-)
“Air superiority wouldn’t help in zombie apocalypse”. Japan: “BANZAIIIIII”
Napalm anybody?
Me
The nuke under my left nut :🤪
Just do kamikaze
It would though
As a Brazilian, almost all houses here are surrounded by walls, electric fences and broken glass bottles to stop invasions, along with guns. I don't think zombies would do very well in Brazil
EXACTLY
Ele é gringo não ia saber sobre esse fato que milhares de casas no Brasil tem muros altos, cercas elétricas, aquelas cacos de vidro em cima do muro, muitos tem arma em casa. Cada casa com esses atributos vira uma mini fortaleza.
@@williamthierry5976 senão me engano ele já viu isso de caco de vidro ss
Bruh
@@williamthierry5976 im a gringo and i know this, brazil is an exemple of meople scared about safety
Island countries: I see this as an absolute win
Well, he is not measuring the impact of air travel in the earlier phases nor the subsequent collapse in international trade, so even if they would do great on their own, a lot of island countries will likely starve to death, quite literally while others like Japan won't be able to make effective use of their army because of the lack of fuel (I'm counting taking over foreign oil fields against the isolation bonus)
But yes, based on his criteria, something like Cuba would have a perfect score. Small island, large army with a bunch of tanks and armored vehicles, and used to isolation and sanctions.
Nice pfp lmao
They don’t have resources so they would need to trade and if they trade they might get zombies
Nah, without trade most small attols would die
@@TheGrzybon yep. And food.
The problem with Islands is they usually don’t have many natural ressources
Farms & oil rigs.
Yeah
Like Japan has no natural iron (or metals) and relies on exported metals but they do have unlimited fish and water
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I don't think that's true outside of video games.
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New Zealand geography would be harder for zombies to navigate than Australia's. We have lots of mountains, rivers and hills. Australia has a couple of mountain ranges and some big rivers but a lot of it -- especially where people live -- is pretty open and flat. Once the zombies get to Aussie, they'd really need to bring out the military to defend them. Whereas NZ would have a slightly better time keeping them at bay.
Soo much space in Australia though, if zombies were in Sydney they would likely never make it to Perth and vice versa
additonally, the difference in the amount of guns per person, NZ would have an easy time holding off zombies, probably killing them before they became a huge horde
And theres the southern island that is much less populated, the NZ government could start a project there to build housing and find a good fortified area and start moving citizens there, But ya with NZ's awesome climate and relatively harmless wild life (so harmless many birds decided to give up flying) I would say it is the best place to be, whether its an apocalypses or not; but im from Canada and don't know much about NZ so there are definitely things i dont know that would make it more of an obstacle then I currently think, like the lack of maple trees and thus a lack of maple syrup, but i hear golden syrup is a thing so idk?
@@Sketchy144 Bro us aussies have tasmania as well, its hilly and isolated, and its big
But if the zombies go in the centre of Aussie I don’t know how they will fare
North Italy: With the Alps, we are ready to defend our country.
South Italy: We are willing to sacrifice North Italy if it comes to it.
Venice: see if they can swim
Switzerland would actually be in an S tier situation, they have so much mountains and bunkers there that zombies just won’t be able to get them
Zombies: Takes over Iran.
Zombies: Turns back into human, speaks Persian, and makes carpets.
World: How did you do that?
Iran: Anyone who invades Iran becomes Iran.
Arizona from my exp does the same thing, stay here to long and suddenly 85,000 is room temperature
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I will admit one key factor he neglected to mention is the cold. Canada and Russia honestly deserve higher rankings because of it.
If zombies doesn't feel pain why would coldness affect them?
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@@cosmos1487 they could still freeze to death.
@@cosmos1487while they wouldn't feel the cold the cold would still freeze their bodies making it impossible for them to move it might freeze them in a way that they'll survive until they thaw out but it could also end up killing every single cell in their body.
@@Death-mg8gc zombies are dried out husks
Brazilian houses are literal fortresses against zombies, most have high outer brick/cement walls instead of fences, they also have barbed wire/electric fences on top of outer walls, in lower end neighborhoods broken glass bits in top of these same walls, and metal gates. higher end houses even have security cameras and automatic gates, the same applies to apartment buildings
So Brazil might do a little better.
The safest place certainly however, could be the Fernando de Noronha archipelago
Drew, Russia would be pretty strong in a zombie apocalypse because:
1:Siberia, lets say China is the place where the apocalypse started, they wont be able to attack Russia because of Siberia. Its very cold and it has a low population density
2.they have many tanks
3.Ural mountains are gonna be a pain for zombies, so Moscow is deffended
4.Russia can survive on its own
5.If there would be zombie animals Russia would be a good place to live because, musquitos would be far more dangerous than zombies
And for people that say that zombies dont feel pain and cannot die of the cold temperatures of Siberia, well let me explain
Zombies have working brains because if they wouldn't had they could not move at all
The brain needs blood so it can work
And blood can freeze
So zombies cannot survive the freezing cold of Siberia
5) There is a problem WE DO HAVE MOSQUITOS even in Siberia
@@TheRifild I read some articles and its a lot better than other countries
For example USA or Romania
I don't think the Russian military is gonna be able to stop hundreds of millions of desperate Chinese trying to flee to Siberia away from the chinese coast, unless they use nukes to kill refugees.
I feel like one thing that is also very important here is culture. How well do people follow government orders (like covid pandemic distance & isolation rules), how strong is the social safety system, either from family ties or government support, how important is staying/visiting/ taking care of your family instead of leaving them to die.
the U.S goes first if so
@@nickmarkin2344 "them zombies are fake, a government conspiracy"
The last people you want to listen to in a zombie apocalypse is the government
@@nathanporrata9274 why
@@nathanporrata9274 my point has been proven
Brazil have a lot of fences in the houses. I belive we could be okay against normal zombies
our houses are basically already fortifield anyway
I mean the zombies in this scenario can do basic human functions
Our walls are ok to keep ocasional robbers out but if a city fall we will be trapped at home.
It's not just fences. Most houses have brick walls between the front door and the sidewalk of your street, the only entrance being usually metal gates. The zombies also wouldn't be able to climb since most houses have either eletric fences, barbed wire or sharp objects in the top of the walls. There are even images where you can see houses with homemade protection like broken glass, so I think staying inside would still be safe in Brazil. The main problem is: how would people leave to find food, water and other resources to survive, since the zombies would probably be smart enough to just wait outside? I think Brazil being in C tier is fair enough, but it could be in B too
@@paleta_1 maybe roof tops
POV: People are just minding they're own business in the Balkans (fighting each other) and suddenly a zombie apocalypse breaks out. What's they're secret weapon? Use the zombies to attack each other
the coast of Brazil is extremely mountainous and the amazon basin is separated from the rest of the country by a high plateau so it is not so easy to leave the amazon for the rest of the country and the rivers in the amazon are very wide
I myself think it would be more likely for the zombie pandemic to start on the coast and spread to the countryside rather than the contrary. The coast is to populous and to dense, and I think we Brazilians would end up underestimating the problem until it got too big for us to handle.
Virtually all our houses have electrified fences/ barbed wire/ broken glass all on top of walls here in Brazil, plus our houses are made of brick and other sturdy materials. I think it would be quite harder for the zombies to do well here.
Edit: Also the amazon has very little people, so i doubt a lot of zombies would accumulate there (that's without even mentioning how hard it is to traverse it)
The US has only 13% of it's economy being based on imports. I think it's safe to say that resources would not be our greatest concern.
Largest food exporter, one of the largest oil producers. The US has resources
Zombies in the Amazon are like glitter in your hair - it’s never going away 😂😂😂😂 10:59
“Air superiority wouldnt do much”
Meanwhile squadrons of a-10s just pouring bullets on zombie swarms:
That if we assume they would form swarms.
I find slightly ironic how Drew compares the Zombies he’s Talking about most closely to the 28 Days later zombies, when he should obviously be doing Andjobe Zombies
In the case of Russia, winter would definitely slow zombies down
Yea but 90% of Russians are in the west flat plains and the only mountains in Russia are in Siberia I think russia would fall super fast but it would take a lot of time for Siberia to fall maybe the Russians just flee to the northeast
winter wouldnt slow as zombies wont care about the cold, they will ignore it
@Ben-fp2yc you can ignore a bear but the bear won't ignore you.
Same things with cold, you can still freeze.
Thing of a car who can't start cause of the cold
@@Ben-fp2yc You think not being affected by temperature is gonna stop them from getting frozen or buried under mounds of snow and ice?
I think the fact that Alberta has been able to keep rats out of the province for 70 years should give points to Canada if they could spread those tactics to the entire country and apply it zombies
Some interesting countries for this scenario, that you didn't mention could be: Finland, India, Norway, Indonesia, any carribian nation or territory, Mexico, Slovakia, Ethiopia, Czechia, Italy, Georgia, France, the Phillipines and Chile.
You could also try to include regions like the Tibetan highlands or Patagonia
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I could see Ethiopia doing relatively well, their geography is wonderful
@@heccme I don't think..
Poor countries with high population and weak military can't survive Zombie apocalypse in my opinion!
I think most deadly or unsafe countries to be in during zombie apocalypse is Bangladesh or Singapore!
yeah
If the Netherlands floods itself it creates a chain of islands on the west side, so that side is gonna be pretty safe. The eastern side however…
in the netherlands houses on fleets are quite normal they are called houseboats
Didn't expect a tier list
not very accurate for Brazil, the houses are very secure and usually have walls or high fences, which would hold the zombies pretty well, besides that, if people using their brains can't enter too deep in the amazon, the zombies wouldn't have a single chance
Plus, they would either decompose ultra fast due to the humid and hot climate, starve to death or be eaten or teared by the wildlife. Or all of the three at once.
Madagascar got penguin defences, Madagascar solos zombie apocalypse
And that’s if the zombies even find Madagascar in the first place.
yea
About Portugal, I’d say the mainland would do alright, being already cornered geographically.
But hard S tier for the Madeira and Azores archipelagos
You should have included climate as a consideration. Extreme climates would help a lot. In very cold areas (Norway, Siberia etc.) the Zombies would freeze, in very hot climates (pick a desert country) they'd dry out and crumble and in Tropical areas (The Amazon, Congo etc.) they'd probably rot very quickly. Temperate to warm countries (areas where most people live) would fair the worst due to the Zombies lasting longer.
I understand this drew even if Poland isn't good nation to be in if the zombie apocalypse is happening. It's good to have a polish person on your team (btw watch geography now Poland).
Least obvious Polish person
Brazil would be abysmal for a zombie apocalypse. Population lacks weapons, very densely populated, massive land territory that is just undefendable. Have you ever seen the pictures of beaches in rio? They’d be fucked
Brazil's escarpment might help protect their coastal population centers from zombies coming through the rainforest/interior of the country but not as much as somwthing like a mountain range.
if you have to escape you lose
@@Ben-fp2yc EsCARPment, not escape-ment...?
This is secretly just Drew ranking the Plague Inc. starting locations.
A good tactic I think would work would be using loudspeakers or drones to cluster up zombie hordes and take them out with artillery, air support, and missiles since zombies are generally attracted to loud noises and aren’t smart.
Personally I'd just take one of the largest cherry pickers from work and drive along with my platform basket elevated around 9 or 10 feet above ground level.
I'd have speakers if needed to play the loudest drum and bass possible and roll over the zombies as they emerged, with 360 open vision, much more than a tank, to use arms as needed.
as a person from New England, we would probably struggle because our population is so highly dense
You should do the reverse and rank which country would be the best country for the virus to start in based on inescapability, military, predicted death toll and that countries reaction to Covid
The issue with putting USA in a low tier is that half the country would be perfectly fine on their own, and cities would be protected with the national guard.
Don't forget that Georgia is home of the CDC, along with a huge budget for medical research across the whole country, so if there is any sort of cure or vaccine, USA would have the best bet.
The USA also has vast mountains on certain regions to slow down any hordes.
It really just comes down to "behind every blade of grass", where the USA has a heavily armed civilian population that would be able to hold off even in small towns on their own.
i think gunownership and collapse of the state would be a bigger problem than the zombies tbh. just imagine all those preppers living their dream + immediate collapse of the economy (in every country)
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They even did an amazing job handling Covid right?
The thing is, no country on Earth would survive long with the economy collapsing. Our whole damn world is too connected. Because of its size America can recover and take care of its own, but I think a majority of the population will die first.
In my comment I said the same thing about a gun behind every blade of grass but also added that we had one of if not the most powerful military in the world. Lol or the military will never see the apocalypse if you give a group of rednecks a unlimited supply of ammo and beer and fuel for their trucks 😂
The people in Australia:ahhh the zombies found us!
Emus:we’ve got this
Drew ,Zombies can't really survive the cold. If go on a high mountain or very north/south you will be safe.
I think that he forgot that literal living corpses are very good at cold.
The opposite is true, that's why I think the amazon would be actually horrible for zombies, all of the mosquitos and other animals feeding off of their rotting corpses would destroy their bodies so much they become non-functional. Zombies survive very well in the cold because that sort of stuff doesn't really happen.
@@b0redom782 but the are human bodies and with nothing to heat them to human temperatures the water in them would expand destroying tissue and cracking bones also stiffening the body making it impossible to move
@@b0redom782 zombies wont rot but im pretty sure the dont have blood
@@b0redom782 If I'm a zombie, the world would end. I have mosquito resistance.
WE NEED PART 2!!!
A few tough pills to swallow for Swissboos:
-the bunkers are a meme, most of them were decomissioned and sold almost 30 years ago.
-the gun ownership is misleading, most of that is people doing their military service over 15 years (they keep the weapon when at home). Said military service consists mostly of drinking beer and walking.
-the easy to defend alps are not home to most of Switzerland's population, or most of its agriculture.
-in general Switzerland is relatively poor in some key ressources like food and energy.
-the vast majority of Swiss people (including yours truly) are privileged city dwellers working in the tertiary sector. And you don't really need bankers, watch salesmen or webdesigners in the zombie apocalypse.
Air superiority wouldn't be too useful, but it would still have many uses, like sending small amounts of helicopters or bombers to stop hordes from forming , and big hordes would be prime targets for bombers.
You could lure hoards away with noise
Brazilian here. I believe Brazil deserves a better ranking. While your point on defending the Amazon being difficult it is also true that, since there are no animal zombies, the zombies will also have a lot of trouble going through the forest and not being killed by animals, as well as drowning or rotting faster because of the humidity and hot temperatures. Furthermore there are a lot of elevations in the terrain which separate the rest of the country.
That being said, probably the infection would start in the coast which is very dense in population. The part that probably would do better would be the northeast because of the dry biome and less population density than the rest of the coast.
Also our military is extremely good at dealing with the jungle, and the special police would deal with the favelas very well as well. We are overall a very hard country to invade and totally conquer for several geographic and other reasons.
Also another problem for us is the reliance on foreign trade, but we also have lots of natural resources to survive if need be.
I doubt zombies lost in the Amazon would be able to find each other to assemble a horde, much less find a place where people live. This would only be likely if a settlement was overrun, then it would still be relatively few people and the jungle can be a fortress in itself, as well as a zombie trying to cross a river might be extremely difficult with a zombie arriving where it wants on the other side.
Seria impossível atravessar a Amazônia, rios muito largos, clima extremamente quente e úmido, área muito grande pra atravessar a pé. Seria mais fácil os zumbis começarem no litoral do que na Amazônia, fora que vivem pouco mais de 20 milhões de pessoas na Amazônia, pouco e espalhado pro tamanho da região e pra chegar no litoral há grandes montanhas.
If there was an island nation as sanctioned as North Korea, it would be untouched by zombies under the zombie conditions in this video. Also the temperature can also be a factor, flesh decays faster in hotter climates so that also favours Australia particularly in the centre & north nearer the equator.
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During a zombie apocalypse I think the worst danger for México would be the USA.
drew thinks zombies in the middle east will just walk to wide dessert hahaha
7:10 I would be mad but at this I must agree, we have only mountains in the south and sea in the north, and every thing else is flat plains with many lakes.
Drew doesn't talk about Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines:
meanwhile Indonesian, Malaysian and Filipinos: *sad Indonesian, Malaysian and Filipino noises*
Yea and in my opinion the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia (mostly the first two) could solo the zombies, like the Philippines when zombies appear would just evacuate from the one island what was infected then hurricanes would come and destroy them and if it doesn’t completely, the Filipino army would just come in and finish them off.
@@sxphizz6965 yes
Please do a part two, also your zombie classification is much better than the other options
drew was actually trippin' when talking about russia, like, does bro not realize the zombies would like 100% freeze in siberia?
He does have a bit of bias against some countries.
do westerners actually believe southern line of Siberia is arctic-cold?
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I mean it also depends on what time of the year the apocalypse starts for instance if the vast majority of the outbreak happens in early spring they have God knows how many months to get across the country and while Russia is known for being cold like here in Canada I know it's Summers can get extremely hot. I mean it said that Napoleon lost at least a quarter of his men to heat stroke when he invaded Russia
@@whitewolf-xf9ui But would you be able to walk through the entirety of Siberia within even a year?
When you realize realistically if zombies were like that humans could probably get rid of them within a year and life will continue
Unless it started in China, India, and southeast Asian countries, might take 2-4 years
That's the thing with Zombies. Even if they were something that could exist (which they can't because they violate the laws of thermodynamics) they'd not get very far in any outbreak. After an initial shock, the cooperative intelligence of human society would click in to contain them. Any zombies not mopped up by control squads will quickly be broken down into dust and slime by the ever-voracious biosphere. After a couple of years, pests and microbes will have rid the world of any zombie still writhing.
The most destructive part of an outbreak would never be the zombies themselves, it would be the breakdown of the global economy causing mass resource shortages and famine.
3:55 🇬🇧 is the *FIFTH** largest Military spender. This graph is from 2021. Germany is now Nr3 🇩🇪 150 billion this year
One thing that people forget is that every Brazilian house is a mini fortress, literally all houses are surrounded by a 6-7 foot wall.
To protect themselves from themselves ( I'm not Brazilian)
@@LilnormieX That's the motive 🍷🗿 but it would work well in a zombie apocalypse.
@@ConkerVonZap only if you have enough supplies, zombies can't enter the property and people too
What happens if a hoard of zombies just gets off the next airplane in your airport?
All conscription countries would do pretty well. Finland & Switzerland & koreas double points for having natural barriers
I feel like after a zombie apocalypse Switzerland Would Just Go ‘current objective: Survive’
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This map is from 1992 1. South Sudan does not exist 2. Montenegro and Kosovo do not exist.
Hi drew, I think your thinking about this all wrong. Many countries wouldn't defend at their border but retreat to major rivers. I could see if the zombies were in western europe germany could simply retreat to the rhine and hold their. They would be safe from the south because no way switzerland falls. In the east they have the sudentland and in poland they could hold at the vistula
there could be a zombie horde waiting to strike in the amazon rain forest right now. we would never know
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Wait Equestria what’s that?
@@seankellygaller6902 it’s from MLP: FiM. Drew mentioned it once.
@@CliffCardi what really where?
I'm from Malta and in this situation I don't know where we would place. On one hand we are a small island full of existing fortress and walled cites with decent gun ownership. On the other hand we have one of the highest population densities, limited resources and possibly the worst army.
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13:10 Switzerland can house their entire population in bunkers. That's got to be an A at least.
I think that Czech republic would be kind of a save place because it is defended by mountains from almost every direction and also it still have the line of bunkers all over the borders from second world war and they are still funcional.
Countries that would be dangerous during an alien invasion or zombie apocalypse (according to movies):
1. America
It would be interesting to see a world where mainland Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America all fall to the zombies
Leaving the UK, Japan, Australia and Indonesia as the most powerful countries and they have to figure out how to retake the lost land
Switzerland should be straight S-tier, because in addition to having a well-thought out interior defense plan, they also mandate all citizens age 18-30 take ~200 days of military training and then join the reserves, keeping their gear at home in case of a sudden attack. Additionally, the Swiss Alps are pockmarked with camouflaged bunkers from which soldiers can shoot zombies with little to no danger on their part. Basically Switzerland is just an entire country of zombie survivalists.
i think Switzerland would fo well
Keep in Mind : Finland has many, MANY bunkers and heavy forests.
Hey yalls, i hope canada gets a good ranking ^-^
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Great video idea! Looking forward to part 2!
Drew can also do ranking countryballs animators ( Tier list )
You should absolutely go for a state tier list...I think the west overall would do better than the east, especially states like Colorado and Montana, states known for preppers...
The only country in mainland europe other than switzerland that I think would do well is Finland. Finland is fortified so well for a zombie-type invasion, they could probably just wait it out.
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I think China should be A because the deserts in the west and north, and the mountains in the southwest and south. Aside from these natural barriers, most Chinese live on the coast, and zombies can’t swim to reach there. Then the mountains and deserts would hold them back for enough time for the military to deploy weapons at the zombies. In other words, China is pretty safe.
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You have to do a part 2 for the different states
We do know that zombies main weakness is the heat. The hotter a place is quicker the corpses decompose. So, flamethrowers and fireworks are your best friend, because the increase heat accelerates decomposition process. Maybe alongside homemade bombs and propane tanks.
I think syberia will survive for very very long time. Walking dead's zombies can't even go to our roads because they're so horrible specially while and after winter. Also on winters zombies will not come through so much snow, also in the beginning of infection we can survive in apartments with strong 2 metal doors in our entrance for a few days, so i think there will be not so much zombies in the beginning.
Our winters lasts for like 5 months
And our population density is low
I feel like Russia might actually fare okay because its so cold half the time that the zombies would just freeze since they have no warm clothing or way of heating themselves up
you’re forgetting IFVs and other military stuff. IFVs would be so much better then a tank in a zombie apocalypse because they are literally designed to take on lightly armoured people. things like helicopters and artillery would also decimate zombies in an urban environment
also, consider flamethrowers and the fact that since zombies aren’t human we can commit war crimes against them
I don’t think Drew understands what military aircraft are capable of…
8:00 outside the sun belt, the USA is self sufficient to a 1940s level of tech. Sun belt is knackered for groundwater and reliance on cars
Island imports would be a problem for countries like Japan. The population is too big they’d run out of resources pretty fast. Iceland on the other hand has rich arctic waters to fish from and a low population. Would be interesting to factor in natural disasters, a place like Bangladesh with lots of flooding, that could actually help?
But Bangladesh is so overpopulated
Bet they'd fall real quick anyways
After you said that Islands would definitely be safer than flat land really makes me curious to see your opinion for my country, Greece
I think the US might be A or something, because basically everybody there has a gun and can defend himself against a zombie
You are forgetting about winter and the cold, the zombies will just freeze, can't d any thing, so country's up north will be well off.
Poland would be actually amazing, even when you look back with other diseases like the black plague, Poland always find a way to repel it.
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I would put the US in top tier, they have a tendency to not care about civilian casualties, nor their own population, they would easily come out on top. I would also give cold countries a big plus, since viruses and stuff tend to not like the cold so much.
I think the USA is a tier cause we have a lot of guns
Sure we use the guns to shoot eachother but i think in terms of a zombie apocalypse, nearly everyone will be able to access a weapon.
another reason that air superiority is not the best during a zombie apocalypse is bc air superiority is fighter jets and stuff like that not bombing or attack so it won't be necessary until a zombie finds leaked documents from war thunder