I'd be interested to hear how you've rated Brunei, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as being in possession of humanistic national policies. I am not being facetious; I'm very curious to hear the details of your assessment. The principles of monarchy have been examined many times in literature, of which dissertations my favorite is Machiavelli's; I've not read one that does not dismiss the general populace, PARTICULARLY the poorer sections of these populae (commonly called "peasants" in these older texts), as being little more than a movable, pliable, and penultimately enslaved resource among many on the chess-board of the Monarch. How the position of this Monarch could be swayed, autonomously or by outside forces, to represent support of the "humanistic" and "social" segments of societal thought, I fail to understand.