In 2010, the oil-rich country of Qatar won the FIFA bidding process that gave it the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Rather than build on their own existing cities, they decided they it would be easier to build a brand new $45 billion dollar city instead, and thus Lusail City was born. Does it sound crazy to build an entire city in the middle of the desert in just 12 years? Of course it does, but Qatar has taken on the challenge and has so far been pretty successful in building what is supposed to be city for 450,000 people—which, by the way, is 200,000 more people than the entire population of Qatar itself.

Lusail City has several attractive advantages, including citywide integrated IT, a public transportation system to cut down on traffic problems, district cooling to combat the desert heat, and a pneumatic trash tube that will efficiently process all of the waste in the city. As a further middle figure to mother nature, an entire man-made waterway is being created by cutting off the westernmost top of the city to make Qetafian Island, which will serve as the main tourist center.

So far, the city has planned for just about everything, including an eHome service in private buildings that remotely controls heating and cooling, turning garden sprinklers on and off, and even the closing and shutting shutters. However, with all of this awesome stuff, there has to be human exploitation involved. Qatar allows employers to do pretty much whatever they want with the migrants building the city. One estimate says that as many as 4,000 workers could die by the 2022 World Cup, but remember this: these brave workers are giving up their lives so overpaid athletes can play soccer and the future citizens of Lusail City can be couch potatoes, so it's all worth it.