Yeah I was going to say another factor is a large population of poor, unemployed/underemployed young people. That is fertile ground for the rise of an authoritarian populist or religious zealot.
The thing is SA is already an authoritarian country. They have an absolute ruler who does whatever he wants. No "magna carta" event has happened yet for KSA. Its still very old school and old world in the way that power is structured. All you need is the next heir to be a bit more sociopathic than even this current ruler is and life changes overnight.
