Oh, to be a citizen of 'The World'

A company called Al Nakheel Properties is working on building 'The World', a archipelago of artificial islands off the coast of Dubai in the Persian Gulf. There's going to be over 200 separate islands and if you have tens of millions of dollars sitting around that you're not using, you can buy one. The picture doesn't really do this place justice. You have to look at the video (links at the bottom of this page) to see just how outlandishly extravagant these places will be. And to keep out the riff-raff that seem to be a little too common in the Gulf, there'll be a security force the size of a small army.

I'm astonished to see the money that flows to the Gulf is being put to such crass uses. Think of how this money could help build a... ah, who cares. It looks really cool. I wish I was a billionaire and could hang out with all the other billionaires and play golf on own our private golf course on an island shaped like Honshu...