Looking across international history, most countries that succeeded in revolution did so by seizing the opportunity at the transition between the agricultural and industrial ages. That was when production relations, social classes, and social attitudes were all changing, making it the easiest time to accept new ideas and complete new transformations.
Mexico's problem was that, aside from a few major cities, everywhere else was simply too backward. Everyone was universally poor, with neither internal class conflicts nor external crises or stimuli. There was not even a spark, so no proper flame could be lit.
Even after Brainiac arrived, he had no particularly good solution for places like that. The development of carbon-based life spiraled upward; it could not skip stages or be achieved overnight.
Industrialization required talent, and talent required education first. Human education cycles were painfully long, often taking more than a decade. Even a super AI could not force crops to grow by pulling them upward. It could only transform things gradually.
Central America and South America were now Earth's farmland and pastureland. Fortunately, Brainiac could provide sufficiently advanced agricultural tools. He arranged for them to farm where they should farm and herd where they should herd. The rest could only be handled slowly.
Speaking of pastureland, Australia had to be mentioned. This continent, isolated in the Southern Hemisphere, had an enormous area and a sparse population. Eighty percent of its land was uninhabited, wasting so much territory for nothing.
When countries still existed, no one could do much about them. After all, it was their own country; whether they developed it or not was their internal affair, and other nations could not interfere casually.
But Brainiac did not indulge such nonsense. So much land for so few people—was that not a complete waste? Even if the interior