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Comment by cyberax

18 hours ago

Honestly, pretty much every other resource-rich country: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, ...

Norway is an outlier.

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throwaway27448  16 hours ago

Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran seem to be doing just fine.

  • detourdog  16 hours ago

    My first job was at a design firm that worked for Samarec Riyadh Refinery. We were design an interactive exhibit based on the refining process.

    Our principal was Jewish and we needed special permission for him to enter the country for presentations.

    During one of the presentations one of our team took a photo of a fountain and it initially ended up in our presentation to be used to set the tone. While previewing our slideshow to our handlers we were told to remove the slide of the fountain. The fountain belonged to the king and could not be photographed without permission from the king.

    Admittedly there was no violence but we were warned that it was very bad. This was the early 1990’s so I’m sure this are much looser now.