Apostasy and consuming any kind of drugs is also punishable by death. Drinking alcohol and having sex outside marriage are severely reprimanded. And you also h

Apostasy and consuming any kind of drugs is also punishable by death. Drinking alcohol and having sex outside marriage are severely reprimanded. And you also have all the vexations of "normal" regular life. Women were not allowed to drive at all until recently. Movie theaters simply do not exist in Saudi. Movies that you can legally watch (at home) are heavily censored (so piracy is your only option). And you have segregated areas for males and females in restaurant and most shops... A project like Neom would totally work if they promised the locals that none of the bullshit rules would apply. Young Saudis would just swamp the place and work their asses off to make it happen... but I doubt the old religious guard would like that. Just marketing BS. They'll just build fancy buildings in the desert at great expense, and nothing will come out of it.