I am not aware of any other countries outside the Middle East that are ruled by absolute monarchs which is the case in the Middle East! These monarchs were carefully selected by the Western powers and put on their thrones to serve Western interests. In 2020 when the monarch of Morocco decided to normalize with the enemies of Arabs, 96% of the people of Morocco were against it and thousands of them went out to the streets to demonstrate and the monarch unleashed his police force on them.