The features of social democracy that are common in Europe are mainly universal health care and tuition-free college. Europeans also get the minimum living wage. They benefit from these features with a cost. Citizens, most especially the rich ones, pay higher taxes to fund these necessary benefits.
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.
The Andes have formed as a result of a subduction zone while the Himalayas have formed as a result of a convergent plate boundary.
