Saudi Arabia wants to build a new megacity in the desert, known as NEOM. Probably for the benefit of foreign tourists (since the sharia will be dispensed with). The most bizarre aspect of the project is a "skyscraper" known as The Line, which will be 500 meters tall, 200 meters wide and 170 km long?!
I´m sure Spiked are happy, but personally I can only go full face palm at this parody of cornucopianism. And oh, 20,000 Bedouin tribesmen will be deported to make room for NEOM, but I´m sure they can return in 20 years or so when this little project will just wind down, God willing!
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