Down through the comments I read "The average citizen of any country are absolutely not the problem" I sure the comment is made in ignorance.

People are and always have been the problem. They are willing pawns in the game of life in most cases. The people of Australia have the power to shut it all down in a couple of weeks. They and all peoples have the power. It might cause some hardship to go without food for a few days and to get a little dirty. ​

The dirty secret about human nature. A large portion of people on this planet enjoy being sheep and being told what to do. They are lazy minded and being a sheep absolves them of responsibilities that might require hard work.

Homesteaders living off the grid are free people like our founders. The efforts they spend is to just survive. Everyday is spent improving their living conditions. The majority of people do not want that lifestyle so they compromise freedom for security. They gladly give up their dreams for not having to do the hard work.

Take the Russian people. They survive well by being grey people. Never call attention to yourself and blend in never achieving to much or to little. Make sure your life is unnoticeable. It is not hard work to survive that way. Kind of the lazy mans paradise.