>>6321477
Its based on richness of related resources and Tag skills. In this case you get a varmint rifle, double barreled shotgun, and a couple boxes of ammo. A makeshift toolkit(cause repair tag). As well survival healing meds(doesn't work as fast as chems but does last longer), food, and grog/moonshine. As well as the makeshift cloths on your back(think typical redneck apparel).

For drinking the MC mainly gets by on grog and simply doesn't drink water. Grog his mix of moonshine and boiled/crudely filtered water. In addition to the small stockpile of moonshine. Food is largely cured meats and fungus. Plants aren't that common yet due to nuclear winter. However compared to other places vegetation is very much a thing there even if most of it is mushrooms at the moment.

Due to stat penalty and twenty years refined resources are exceedingly scarce in the starter zone. This includes guns, chems, and ammo. So you don't get to start with much.

TLDR
Tag determines what starting equipment
Resource stat determines quality.