argumate:

discoursedrome said: you guys should find some way to get water out into the desert and then build new cities there full of Mysterious Foreigners

there was already a plan for this by the Japanese!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis

It got Australian government support, but freaked everyone the fuck out:

The MFP proposal was attacked in Australia by critics on the Left, who likened it to Japan’s colonial experiment in Manchuria, and critics on the Right, who saw it creating an exclusive Japanese enclave.

Then of course the Japanese economy ground to a halt and everyone forgot about it.

wait what?