Killing zombies and wearing spiked leather jackets is cool and all, but our collective fascination with the apocalypse has more to do with the wish to be free from the stress of modern life than actually wanting to live in a nightmarish wasteland. After all, the reality of dealing with irradiated water supplies and plague-ridden settlements is a lot less fun if you take the situation more seriously. At the end of the day, it’s more likely that regular folks like you and me would end up as decorative skeletons on some raider’s war wagon than as members of a badass biker gang.

Thankfully, there are some people out there who’ve decided to turn their obsession with our species’ tendency for self-destruction into something a little more constructive. That’s how we get projects like Off Protocol’s handy guide...