Nauru is (or was) trying to do this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/the-middle-of-nowhere http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-arc

Nauru is (or was) trying to do this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/the-middle-of-nowhere http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/t... is where I heard about it, but this story aired almost a decade ago so I don't know what's happened since. I assume it didn't pan out. Nauru is kind of hard to get information on, because of its obscurity and isolation.