Azerbaijan's main source of wealth is it's mineral industry.
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The higher the population the more water is consumed. the Aquifer is depleted.
The Saudi Arabia politics are take place in the context of a totalitarian absolute monarchy with some Islamic (Wahhabi Islam) lines, and the King is both the Saudi Arabia's head of state and absolute monarch (i.e. he is the head of government). The King also serves as the head of the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud, which is also why the country bears the name that it has.
One of the biggest reasons was that there were some revolutions that happened around the lat 19th century. They were primarily sparked by lower class individuals who were looking for more money to support themselves/families.