The international space station would be a awful place without the windows. It would be like a submarine.
If you ever feel stupid looking ahead in science (Emerging theories). Just look WAY back to feel really smart: Pretty much everyone could re invent the printing press or redo the first science experiment that proved flies don't spontaneously come from meat. This knowledge would have made you a top tier mind hundreds of years ago!
With "Deny Defend Depose" being a threat I think we run into the same problem as Bloody Mary where you have to draw the line somewhere on how long you can wait between words and it still counts.
At this rate North Korea will have a female president before America
How to go from rural to non rural in a region:
Step 1. Don't be a shithole
That's it. Then people will move there and it will become populated. The word for "rural country" is just third world. Because rural areas are low opportunity shitholes and everyone that lives there is stupid.