There is no shortage of good planning resources for those who wish to prepare for SHTF scenarios. These sites provide planning suggestions for events that range in scale from short term needs driven by natural disaster through a total, long term, societal collapse. What would the world look like after a collapse? Superficially, it may look like Slab City. This ‘City’ has been called the last free place on earth. It has no rules(laws). Only consequence and a few customs for dealing with those consequences. This bizarre, lawless land in the California desert is inhabited by drug addicts, eccentrics, army vets, hippies and just plain old weirdos.