I think we should make a super big space ship, load it with all the lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, hair dressers, homos - all the truly important people. Send them to Mars first, so that when the unimportant people arrive - you know, farmers, inventors, engineers, construction workers, etc - the producers - there would be enough infrastructure and rules in place.
Of course, it might take a while for the second spaceship to lift off.