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Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy. Voting only occurs for municipal offices. All state-level and national offices are directly appointed by the King of Saudi Arabia and his advisers (who are themselves appointed by the King). In order to be a democracy, you need elections for all or most principal offices of government; Saudi Arabia lacks this.

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