Jackson Lennock
Well-known member
Egypt is an interesting country. While, technically, it's a very big country, in reality it is 100 million people packed into an area with the farmland or Belgium or Serbia. Because of this, the country is a massive food importer with a fairly high cost of living for a country of its income range. To deal with this, the Government tries to come up with projects like the New Valley Project or the New Administrative Capital or flooding the Qatarra Depression
What if, upon independence, Egypt had gotten control of Sudan? Even if it only included North Sudan, that'd be an area where a sort of overpopulated Egypt could encourage Egyptians to move to. Sudan also has as much Arable land as the rest of the Arab World put together, but it hasn't been put to use primarily due to political and economic factors which made outside investment risky or untenable. One video here shows that that has been changing as of late.
What if, upon independence, Egypt had gotten control of Sudan? Even if it only included North Sudan, that'd be an area where a sort of overpopulated Egypt could encourage Egyptians to move to. Sudan also has as much Arable land as the rest of the Arab World put together, but it hasn't been put to use primarily due to political and economic factors which made outside investment risky or untenable. One video here shows that that has been changing as of late.