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It feels like a slice of Americana in New South Wales perhaps - but that would miss the point that here, rodeo has become very much an outback Australian tradition in its own right.

What makes it great: Even after I saw Red Rock Canyon, I didn’t fully understand how easily outback Nevada can pass for outback Utah.

The dystopian action films, created by George Miller, are set in the barren Australian outback, exploring the breakdown of society after an apocalypse.

“I know he pinched you, and even knocked you down, but… It’s like the laws of the outback took over that lunchroom or something. What you did was wrong.”

The study, published in the journal Nature, compared 16 societies scattered across the world, in places like the Yukon and the Australian outback.