Some of you might wonder why Australia and the Sahara play such a large role in Servants of Man.
Edit: I forgot one other important factor when I made the video: The story has space elevators. Once space elevators are invented, they will be vastly cheaper than any other launch system. And they can only be built on the equator. Countries that don’t have access to the equator will be shut out of the space economy, so all the future colonial powers will be in the tropics. Places like Europe, Japan, and North America that have good wind resources to power an automated economy will still be at a disadvantage because they will be planet-bound, the equivalent of being landlocked back in the age of sail.