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Article: AN ALTER NATIVE UNIVERSE; Anything's possible for the mega rich - even a built-to-order country in an amazing [pounds sterling]1.7bn replica of Earth HOW I SEE IT.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2004
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Byline: ROBERT HARDMAN
THIS IS the question troubling every bored billionaire: you've got the penthouse, the estate, the villa, the yacht, the plane. What else is left to own? The answer: a country. And every one of these countries comes with guaranteed sun, sea and sand.
Welcome to the brave new world taking shape a few miles out in the warm waters of the Arabian Gulf.
Here, one of the world's richest families is building a jigsaw of 300 private luxury islands to create a nation-by-nation, state-by- state replica of the entire planet.
The only difference is that you will have to be eye-poppingly rich to live in this world.
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