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Promising a transformation of Saudi Arabia, MBS aimed to open the conservative Kingdom to the outside world. With a youthful population—70% of Saudis are under 30—he emphasized modernizing Saudi society. His rhetoric focused on eradicating extremist ideology, and he implemented sweeping social reforms. Religious police were diminished in power, and decades-old social restrictions were eased—women gained the right to drive, work openly, and mingle with men, freedoms once punishable by flogging.