You and your fellow countrymen are already the poorest in the Arabian Peninsula with unemployment at 40%. Indeed, it’s only going to get worse as the population will double to 50m in the next 25 years.
At least 30% of your country’s irrigated water is used for the production of a mild narcotic drug. Your capital city (pictured above) will run out of water around the same time as the oil wells run dry.
These are only the headline figures. Up to now your country has dealt with the water problem by subsidising the cost of diesel fuel for the pumps that extract water out of the deep aquifers. It’s been able to do this because of the oil revenue.
Everyone knows someone who knows someone that is linked with al-Qaeda.
Since mid February, there have been daily anti-government demonstrations and the current president who has been in power for the past 33 years is now under pressure to resign in the next 30 days.
Start getting your cv ready.
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