Saudi Arabia's SADAD, for instance, allows the kingdom's citizens to make payments to local companies.
As the report points out, half the kingdom's citizens are treated in effect like children or the mentally ill for the duration of their lives.
Its pledge has always been to "maximise the value of the country's petroleum reserves for the benefit of the kingdom's citizens".
The animal kingdom, whose citizens outnumber the human population by many orders of magnitude, is rife with pain.
The former kingdom's 635,000 citizens are mostly poor subsistence farmers.
More than half of the kingdom's 4.3m citizens are of Palestinian origin, most of them refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars.
Although trimming the foreign workforce will theoretically free up jobs for locals, few Saudis seem likely to seek them, least of all those of the menial kind, which the kingdom's 19m citizens tend to shun.
Bahrain's Sunni leadership has faced continuous turmoil since 2011, when many of the island kingdom's Shi'ite citizens, who comprise the majority of Bahrain's population, took to the streets to protest Al Khalifa's rule.
Now that he is effectively ruling the country as King Fahd fades in ill health, Crown Prince Abdullah presides over a kingdom where no citizen can know the income derived from pumping eight million barrels a day of oil and no one knows how many billions the royal family skims for personal use -- though judging by the scores of opulent palaces throughout the country, it is not chump change.
Nazer told HuffPost that power brokers in Jordan's partner nations were indicating that they expected the kingdom to bring its citizens together and redouble its efforts against the militants.
In the prefatory remarks to her magisterial essay "Illness As Metaphor, Susan Sontagg notes that we are all dual citizens of the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick – although we all prefer to use only the one passport.
