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The Australian Outback of THE ROVER is a world ten years after a great Western economic collapse. It's a near future of social and economic decay. Services, utilities, law and order have fallen into dangerous disrepair. And yet people from all corners of the world have come to this place to work the mines that feed the new world alignment, that feed the great powerhouses of this, the Asian century.

The world of the movie, as such, mirrors the American and Australian gold rushes of the 19th century. People are drawn to the land's mines and with them come the leeches, the refuse, the hustlers and criminals who hope to exploit the mines' margins. This isn't a complete collapse of society—it's an inversion of present–day global power dynamics.

And at the centre of this world are two men—one, a murderously embittered Australian man, a former soldier who has lost his farm and his family; the other, a simple and naive American boy, too young to remember a time when things were anything other than what they are.

– David Michôd

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The consequences of a Western economic collapse would be felt globally. The outback of Australia is just one corner of the planet where people might come to try and eke out an existence.

This interactive map is a visual guide to the global economic and demographic landscape—in our present day, and a hypothetical near future where the balance of economic power has been entirely inverted.

Explore categories using the drop-down menu at the top of the page, and hover over specific countries to compare factual data from the present, with fictional data from the future.

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