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* In Philip Pullman's ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', this is the fate of Lord Asriel. He was banished to the North for causing political distress, but was allowed to contract the construction of his own cabin including ''glass windows'' (which were very expensive at that time). He even managed to continue the experiments that got him banished in the first place by having materials and equipment smuggled in.
* I believe it was Fredric Brown who wrote a short story about a tourist arriving on a distant planet who accidently kills a local. Told that because the locals enjoy a very long lifespan, the penalty for murder, even accidental murder, is death at dawn the next morning, he despairs. Under the law he is to be housed overnight in a magnificent 100 room mansion with all manner of luxuries, food, liquor, and even women provided to meet any imagined need of the condemned man for his last night. Then he asks how long he has to enjoy all this. He is told that a full day on this planet equates to only about 120 earth years so he only has about 60 years to live (Apparently planetary rotation is very slow). As the story ends, he wonders out loud if he'll make it.
* In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', Hell itself has a place like this for the Good Pagans, mortals who committed no real sin but were born before Christ or died unbaptized (which was a big thing in Catholicism at the time). Basically, the place is a beautiful meadow where the only unpleasant part is lack of Hope and boredom; the occupants discuss philosophy and art via meditation and from each other. Residents include [[Greek Mythology|Electra]], [[The Iliad|Hector]], [[Ovid]], [[Homer]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Horace], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan|Lucan] and of course, [[Virgil]], the
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