Age: As yet unborn.
Appearance: Blueprintish.
You may have to give me a little more to go on. IRTBBC? Is it some kind of textspeak? No. Isn't it obvious? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: the Integrated Resort, Tourism, Business and Backup City. Ta, as they like to say, dah.
A backup what? City.
Where? In Greece.
Really?! I would never have thought they had the wherewithal to take an entire urban structure and reproduce it elsewhere, but I suppose they've got the urge to wipe the slate clean and ... Hang on. You're kidding, aren't you? Yes, I am. It's actually Japan. The government has proposed building a backup city for Tokyo in case the capital is hit by an earthquake or other natural disaster again.
Do you mean, like, a proper city? Absolutely I do. On a 1,236 acre site now used as an airport, 300 miles west of Tokyo. It will comprise 50,000 residents, and 200,000 workers from nearby Osaka.
That. Is. So. Cool. Any distinguishing features planned? Well, there'll be a 652m high office tower.
Excellent. So many people would have played safe and gone for something more bungalow-and-bunker based. Take that, earthquakes! Indeed.
Do you think we ought to do it here? Don't be a fool. We haven't enough balsa wood, surplus dog poo or used lottery scratchcards to build an auxiliary London.
We could build it without the poo and litter. And how would people know where they were then? Talk sense, man.
I think we should do something. Robopoliticians? A football pitch-sized piece of paper that folds out into a pop-up parliament? I'd wait and see how the Olympics unfold first, my friend. I think you might find yourself curtailing such ambitions.
Do say: "Great idea. No way would a bunker, a handful of flash drives and a copy of How to Rebuild Civilisation the Easy Way make more sense. No way."
Don't say: "This is going to confuse the hell out of Godzilla next time he drops by."
