Saudi isn't a country, but a family business with a flag. An institutional cross dressing rule by law autocracy in which connections rule over contracts and courts.
Dubai is a leveraged real estate Ponzi scheme built on serf labor and soon to be made unliveable by global warming. 54c in the shade, no thanks.
French debt to GDP ratio is less than half of Britain's in 1815.
French labor productivity with a 35 hour week is much higher than the USA and Germany. Why? Social spending. The rich in France send their kids to public schools and health care is the envy of the world. Its really great for patients and lousy for the doctors because there are so many of them, like my French MBA classmate who left France as an underemployed doctor.