Their puritanical religious style sets forth an ideal morality with clear cut rules that are similar to the constraints of an engineering project.

For Saudi Arabia is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch conservative, adhering, for the last two centuries, to the puritanical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam.

Indeed, the Party, having ceased to be a rigid monolith obedient to a single leader, has become dependent on the military for its political legitimacy and to ensure domestic order.