Alcohol bans are overtly part of what you put as "inflexible religions".Are you saying that the reason that Arab nations suck is because of alcohol bans? That’s pretty silly it’s a few reasons from inflexible religions and their culture being tribal so they fracture instead of being loyal to their state and oil merely props them up and is able to hide their faults.
They are however quite degenerate and this ban may be helping with that, as while Islam explicitly bans alcohol, there's a lot of nastier modern and less modern stuff that some of these countries abuse to hell and back, like captagon or khat. As in not just local underclass, but often the very militant zealots abuse these things too.
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