Villages?? You want 'em, we got 'em.

American great plains village with half of its land area vacant? Why, of course.

Louisiana bayous? Yup. The cover pic is actually based on the Louisiana bayous, which had Filipino settlers who built similar floating villages in the 1700s (they are the fictional founders of my region). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Malo,_Louisiana#Etymology Their descendants founded this community in Louisiana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte,_Louisiana#History), which won an award for its "New Urbanism" plan (http://www.cnu.org/cnu-news/2014/06/2014-cnu-charter-awards-announced) that includes a proposal to develop a new Filipino floating village (http://issuu.com/cpex/docs/jeanlafittetomorrow)

Glitches? Yes.

Outlet "villages" with a Finnish flair? Perkele delivers! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkele