I am aware that organized crime was not the only reason that Las Vegas became a global gambling center, but it was certainly a major reason. No, where else could organized crime groups, of any nationality, create a gambling mecca from scratch and dominate it? Macau doesn't work: it already had gambling under the Portuguese. Atlantic City, also, was a significant town before gambling arrived. Monaco can't be an alternate location either, being a wealthy principality already and never a mob city. Is there an alternate location, anywhere on else, that could serve as a crime-dominated gambling Eden? It needs to be big, raking in Las Vegas' five billion a year. If you can get a whole country for this, that works even better.