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Las Vegas, Monaco, Macau. These cities across the world make a fortune. However in the whole of Africa there is no city like them. The opportunity for success has never been more attainable. The 400,000 yearly tourists know the island of Zanzibar for its history and scenic views, and in the next decade it will be known for its nightlife, red hot slots, and massive jackpots.
The first objective is the creation of the Zanzibar Gaming and Entertainment Company (ZGEC). This company will not pay property tax nor income tax. The only revenue that will be taxed will be that of Alcohol, and Gaming. The ZGEC will get a 30 year $750 million loan at 2% interest to start construction and operations.
Second objective is for the construction of ZGEC's first resort casino the "Sultan" which will be a 70,000 Sq.-foot casino and resort with the following features.

• 1500 Slot games
• 100 table games
• International Live Sports betting
• 3000 Rooms, and 16 Luxury Villas
• Two Fabulous Restaurants
  • A Moroccan Mexican fusion restaurant "Tangiers Ole"
  • A United States southern style restaurant "Chicken George" (funding from Perdue giving them exclusive advertising will be sought)
• A fully loaded Spa facility
• A 1930's French inspired bar
• Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nightly performances from the Kenyan boys choir, singing traditional Swahili music
• 2 pools

Third objective, which may be the most crucial, foreign investment. ZGEC will attempt to partner with both Australia's Crown Resorts and India's Delta Corp Limited for each company to develop a second and third casino. The same tax breaks will be applied to each companies casinos, as long as ZGEC retains 10% ownership of each.

Like Hong Kong, Macau is a Special Administrative Region of People's Republic of China. It is in the western side of the Pearl River estuary in Southern China. The region is enclosed with sea tides coming and other stream of river joining the Pearl River. Macau is peninsula framed by waters of rivers, Zhu Jiang and Xi Jiang. Thus, Macau is physically attached to China. Hong Kong being its immediate neighbour. Cantonese, a Chinese dialect and Macanese Portuguese are two official languages of Macau. English is more commonly spoken. After it was handed over to China, Mandarin language is becoming more popular.
Macau is the only place in China where gambling is legal, and this attracts rich tourists from world over. A lot of wealth is accumulated in Macau to such an extent that International Monetary Fund (IMF) has envisaged that Macau will surpass Qatar in 2020 to become the richest place in the world. Gambling Revenue to the government accounts for 50 per cent of its robust economy. It stretches to two islands viz.Taipa having International Airport and Coloana famous for its sober ambience. Macau is an autonomous territory.
Area: 32.9 square kilometres Population: 653,100 Currency: Macanese Pataca Symbol: MOP$ 1USD=8.07MOP$ Also called as Macau Pataca Though MOP$ is Macau's official currency but most of the money in circulation in the region is actually HKD (Hong Kong Dollar)
It was formerly a colony of Portuguese Empire as Ming China leased it as trading post to Portuguese on annual rent to be paid in silver and gradually, they got perpetual occupation rights of Macau in 1887. This remained under Portuguese till 1999 when it was returned to China. The territory has become the resort city and top destination for gambling tourism and gaming industry. At the time of handling over, a pre-condition was mutually agreed upon that political and economic systems as prevalent under concluding years of Portuguese Regime will remain unchanged for next 50 years from the time of handling over to China. So, during last waning years of Portuguese Rule, they had opportunity to build massive projects like Macau International Airport, Cargo Terminals, Raised Infrastructures for Trade and Entertainment Industry. Following transfer, Macau liberalized casino industry to allow foreign investors to start a new period of economic development which accumulated wealth in Macau. The per capita income of Macau is one of the highest in the world. The life expectancy rate of the residents of Macau is the fourth highest in the world.
Transport: It has highly developed roads system. Territory's first rail network, Macau Rapid Transit will connect 11 metro stations throughout Taipa, Cotai and Macau City Centre. Ferry services operate at InneOuter Harbour Terminals for Hong Kong and Mainland China. Daily helicopter service to Hong Kong and Shenzhen is in place.
Health Care: Apart from well-equipped hospitals with foreign qualified doctors and technicians, there are numerous health centres which provide free basic health care to its residents. The following are important places in Macau which are major attractions for tourists, business people and general public: 1 Senado Square 2 Na Ticha Temple 3 A-Ma Temple 4 Saint Austin's Church 5 Historic Center of Macau also known as Centro Historico de Macau (World Heritage Site of UNESCO) 6 Macau Tower 7 The Cathedral of Nativity of Our Lady
Due to mixture of Chinese and Portuguese Cultures, there are year round celebrations and holidays. Macau Grand Prix in November, Monaco Grand Prix, Macau Arts Festivals, Music Festivals in October, Macau International Marathon in December, Roman Catholic Rite & Journey which travels from Saint Austin Church in February and A-Ma Temple celebrations to honour Goddess Matsu in April are major festivals of Macau. Another festival of Dancing Dragons at the Feast of Drunken Dragon is popular among tourists and residents of Macau. Discover the beautiful Macau on an International Escape with Altiqa Lifestyles. by Gaurav Rajput

Warning, rampant speculation ahead:
By 2030, there are places that have collapsed. Syria, Libya and Iraq no longer exist, but are now ruled by regional strongmen and stuck in low intensity tribal conflicts that don't come to an end. The problem these countries have is that they are synthetic states, formerly kept together only through force. The European Union as we know it today exists only in name still. To deal with refugee streams from Africa and the Middle East, internal border controls have been reinstated. Italy, Greece and Spain are forced to deal with the mess, the UK has further isolated itself from the European mainland. Large parts of France are no-go areas for non-muslims.
Other places that have undergone balkanization? The United States. Shale oil production peaked somewhere between 2015 and 2020, after which oil production rapidly plunged, leading to mass unemployment and a very rapid decline in GDP. State governments no longer enforce many federal laws. It started with cannabis and gay marriage laws, it eventually moved over to other aspects as well. With every democrat elected as president, red states began to defy the federal government more. There is still a president, but he functions a lot like the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, officially ruling over a patchwork of nations he has no genuine control over. What remains of the poorly maintained infrastructure has by now been turned into a number of toll roads in many places. For outsiders, costs of travelling through the toll boots is very high. Internally, many people have started migrating to Alaska, as it still has potential for economic development.
In Africa, climate change has taken its toll. Large parts of the continent suffer from drastic soil erosion. The population of many African nations saw a peak before 2030 as a result of large civil wars and massacres, often between Christians and Muslims, in other places because of conflicts between pastoral people and agriculturalists. Harvests fail because of fungal plant pathogens that ruin the crop, a problem that was poorly anticipated. In the developed world, this problem is solved by spraying large amounts of pesticide, leading to a rise in prices and health problems. People believe themselves to be "allergic" to a wide variety of food products, in the same way many Americans think they're "gluten sensitive" because they happen to face health issues from the glyphosate in their food.
No mainstream policymakers and politicians ever acknowledge that peak oil was a problem. Instead it is thought that oil demand simply peaked because of some other factor, such as people choosing to work more from home or car ownership becoming less popular. Most regular people blame government incompetence, racism or greedy bankers for the poverty they face. Renewable energy is seen as a buzz from the past. Governments can't afford to maintain the large subsidies for electric cars and other fancy inventions they implemented. Tax revenue is too low for governments to be able to make the infrastructure investments they need to make to increase renewable energy production.
After many years of increasingly dubious statistics, a number of European countries elected new parties, only for the newly formed government coalitions to announce that the people's gut sentiment was right and the economy continued to shrink during the previous administration. Outside of the mainstream media, people stopped paying attention to official statistics and instead started using a variety of alternative metrics, like the number of cars sold in the previous month. Some governments have moved away from the goal of "full employment" towards the goal of providing everyone with "basic necessities". Some have moved away from economic growth towards "controlled degrowth".
What does controlled degrowth look like? Libertarian types have moved to calling it "techno-totalitarianism". They can't be blamed, as it does look dystopian. If your cell phone detects that you're out of the house, it automatically turns off your TV and your computer. You can turn these options off, but it's not easy for the typical consumer. You pay flexible energy prices, which means that young people living by themselves typically can't afford to use a lot of electricity in the evening.
Your employer receives a subsidy for the fact that you work from home and don't have to be on the road. Not working from home, but actually having to go somewhere for your white collar job is now considered somewhat prestigious. Many people secretly have multiple jobs, others make a living combining their welfare with consumer surveys on the internet, often filled in with the help of smart bots. Most colleges don't expect people to actually show up for any activities other than doing exams and most young people don't bother attending classes.
Of course not everyone likes "controlled degrowth". A number of industry lobby groups push their own perspective, which they label "alternative growth". They argue that new technologies will allow us to focus on economic growth by selling "experiences", that don't take a lot of additional energy. Examples they suggest are 200 dollar celebrity fragrances and designer clothing. In libertarian/conservative circles, alternative growth is popular, because it's thought that it will "create jobs" and "put America back on track".
These same lobby groups were engaged in other activities too. The car industry, as it saw sales drop every year, decided to start a media campaign that tried to turn the car into a sex symbol. Pop artists were paid to sing about a particular car brand and how their boyfriend is sexy because she can drive around town with him in said particular type of car. None of this worked, because the car industry refused to face the obvious fact that young people were unable to afford a car, instead of being merely disinterested in one. Because the car turned into a symbol of wealth, it turned into a cash crop for governments faced with tax evasion by the middle class and tax avoidance by the rich.
There is a lot of poverty of the type people formerly knew only from third world countries. Many families are homeless and live on the streets. They tend to do "microwork" through their smartphones, which earns them cryptocurrency. They may report pirated DVD's or videogames found on the internet, they fill in captcha's for spammers, or perhaps get paid to promote an online casino on their social media account. Offically hardly anyone dies of the swollen-bellies type of poverty we know from Ethiopia, instead, people die the way they did after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They commit suicide, die of a drug overdose, die in an accident while drunk. Some die of cold in winter in their tent.
Being rich has become genuinely dangerous and not very enjoyable. Many of the rich have moved to places where they believe themselves to be safe: Luxemburg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Singapore and some island groups. It's increasingly common for people to be kidnapped, with demands made to transfer cryptocurrency to a particular address. Historically, most hostage schemes failed because people are personally identified when they receive the payment. Cryptocurrency has solved this problem, the result being a rise in crime. The hostage taker himself is typically caught and thrown in jail or commits suicide, but the cryptocurrency has already been received by then at an anonymous address, that's used by friends, family members and/or gang members. Most people own not one type of cryptocurrency, but multiple types. Many are unaware of what types of cryptocurrency they own, as the total amount is automatically translated into dollars for them. New cryptocurrencies are typically created by popular websites and gradually decentralized.
Mixed in with the bad, some good things have happened too. Most people now grow food in their garden. Even rooftops and community parks are used to grow food. Neighbors secretly grow food in gardens in the abandoned homes next to them as well, homes that are owned by banks after the people were unable to pay their mortgage and evicted. The other side of the coin of distrust and animosity is that students move back home to their families. People generally try to know their neighbors again and share food and electrical appliances. As food has become expensive, animal based protein has turned into a luxury good. Chicken hatcheries are continously faced with infectious germs that spread and the process of producing protein by feeding animals edible grains and soybeans is seen as wasteful. Wild overpopulated animals like geese are killed, their meat is typically sold or given to the poor.
The singularity types like Ray Kurzweil are by now seen as a naieve subculture, in the same way Cyberpunk or the Y2K bug hysteria is seen today. There exists such a thing as virtual reality, it's a merger of our TV, music and video games. People put a device on their head and immerse themselves in their digital hallucinations. In contrast to what we feared, even virtual reality in practice ends up boring people. Back in the 80's and 90's we had 3D glasses, digital pistols you could shoot at your screen with, gas pedals and steering wheels for your racing games etcetera, but this was fun for a few months. Virtual reality similarly, is typically fun for a few months. People don't spend their days playing computer games because of their addictive potential, they play these games to hide away from the real world. If the best virtual reality we had was a book, they'd spend their time reading their book.
There are still climate skeptics, but their rhetoric has moved more towards the political mainstream and they now also hold significant influence over politicians. They argue that "the worst is behind us" when it comes to warming. With the poverty people face, concern over warming in the distant future is seen as a decadent worry that most regular people can't be bothered with. Concern over global warming dropped, because somewhere between 2015 and 2030, yearly global CO2 emissions peaked. Methane emissions dropped too, because people could no longer afford to eat large amounts of meat, as did emissions of a number of other greenhouse gasses and climate forcing agents.
Climate change has drastically affected the world, but generally through different mechanisms than we anticipated today. For example, higher CO2 concentrations have had a catastrophic impact upon agriculture, by favoring the spread of fungal plant pathogens. In addition to the positive feedback loops we're familiar with, there also existed a number of negative feedbacks that are rarely heard today. Molecular chlorine released from melting sea ice removes ozone from the troposphere as well as methane, moreso than hydroxyl radicals do.
Do we stay beneath two degrees? I can't claim to know, but I do know that many of the doom scenarios we read today cancel each other out. If oil production is about to peak, we can't raise temperatures by five degree celsius by 2100. If sea levels rise rapidly, the methane clathrates should be stabilized due to the higher pressure. If the ozone layer is depleted in a nuclear war, more ultraviolet radiation enters the troposphere, which means that more hydroxyl radicals are generated, which break down methane and hydroxyl radicals, which are gasses that would otherwise deplete the ozone in the ozone layer.
The result is that the ozone layer, like all of nature, is a self-stabilizing phenomenon. Like a swing, we can exert great energy to push it away from its stable point in the center. Eventually however, our stomach will be empty, we'll go home and the swing will return to its center, as gravity continues to pull. As the late great Lynn Margulis noted, Gaia is a tough bitch. If we start shoving her around, she'll start pushing back, and she has some mean techniques.
I like McPherson's title, "Nature bats last", but as the serotonin concentration in his brain dropped further, it seems his image of Gaia evolved from a tough matriarch who grabs you by the testicles into a fragile maiden whose last act of revenge is inflicting humanity with HIV as she is sodomized to death by a pencil-shaped phallus normally inserted into an anime sexbot. Gaia doesn't die a tragic death, she grabs you by your Google glass, drags you outside of the bar, drowns your cities in tsunamis, turns your crops into a wasteland then laughs as you stumble home and blame "anti-science Facebook moms" who refused to eat your GMO crops or have a Thorium reactor in their backyard for the fact that you got your ass kicked.