BY MOST measures, the emirate of Abu Dhabi, the richest of the seven statelets that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is wonderfully affluent. With only 2m people and a vast reservoir of underground oil, its income of $90,000 per person is second in the world only to nearby Qatar. Its indigenous citizens, amounting to less than a third of the overall population, are used to government largesse: as a generous provider of services and benefits, they have generally been happy to forgo political rights. Until now.
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