Well, this is why Burma did the exact same thing (anybody who casts their memories back a few years might see how this relates to Egypt):<p>>Naypyitaw, then, is the ultimate insurance against regime change, a masterpiece of urban planning designed to defeat any putative ‘colour revolution’ – not by tanks and water cannons, but by geometry and cartography. 320 kilometres to the south, Rangoon, with five million people, is home to one-tenth the country’s population. But even if that city were brought to a standstill by public protests and demonstrations, Burma’s military government – situated happily in the middle of paddy fields in the middle of nowhere – would remain unaffected.<p>><p>>Of all the possible reasons why the junta chose to relocate their capital to this isolated, dusty place, this is perhaps the most plausible. And judging by the pace and scale of construction underway here, the transfer of capital is intended to be as final and irrevocable as the grip on political power of the Tatmadaw, the Burmese military.<p><a href="http://svaradarajan.blogspot.sg/2007/02/dictatorship-by-cartography-geometry.html" rel="nofollow">http://svaradarajan.blogspot.sg/2007/02/dictatorship-by-cart...</a><p>More bad news:<p><a href="http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/05/how-geography-influences-political-corruption/5642/" rel="nofollow">http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/05/how-geography-influe...</a>