I have like half a dozen hardholder ideas.<br/><br/>- a former technician for an electrical wind farm desperately trying to keep one turbine running, cannibalizing parts from the other towers in the farm - resource the hold provides is electrical power.<br/>- a ranch in the south texas brush country.  Vaqueros equipped with machetes, bolos, and whips ride the thick brush rounding up feral hogs and cattle - a breed reminiscent of the Longhorn, though with many Brahmin features. - main resource is protein - mostly pork and beef<br/>- a bunker in the white sands area of New Mexico, built to withstand atomic detonation, the facility is still mostly intact.  And the desert surrounding the area isn't much worse than the rest of the planet anymore<br/>- a scattering of city-states along the Colorado river in the area that dried up after someone nuked Hoover dam and Lake Mead drained away.  - interesting here is that a driver could be a riverboat captain, and control a crew like a chopper - or a chopper gang could be the crew of a riverboat<br/>- a palace at the apex of the St Louis arch, the Emperor having a view of his paltry domain in the dried up bed of the Mississippi river.