On National Day, we celebrate not only what Saudi Arabia has become but the journey that made it so. And therein lies the story. A nation like no other. Its story did not begin with abundance, nor was its state built amid ease and plenty. It arose in a peninsula where water was scarce, settlements lay far apart and distances were hard to cross, in a world shaped by competing powers and conflict. Yet our forefathers understood a truth that would come to define this nation: scarcity of resour
