Las Vegas is surrounded by a bleak landscape—the Desert—where death is all that can be expected. In Rangali, in the Maldives, this immediate hostility is embodied by the Ocean. Both Las Vegas and Rangali are places where the most dangerous, risk-filled landscape directly borders the most favourable, pleasant environment, designed and built as a place where the vanquishing class can pay for peace of mind, for feeling protected and worry-free, for being without fears, while faced by the unfavourable, and in this case immediate, outer landscape.
