I meant in the stuff those countries to do the citizens, they both repress, commit amputations, and sometimes even killing them off, although how I said it didn't get the message across, so my badOne is a theocratic republican dictatorship, one is a absolute monarchy whose power is completely dependent on appeasing domestic theocrats who oppose the republican government of the other country. It might not seem like much of a difference but it's a huge distinction in the dynamics of power in each country. There's nothing the Saudis fear more than Iran exporting revolution abroad, and Iran is fundamentally opposed to the Gulf monarchies.
It's kind of like how the Holy See would still be different from the Russian Federation if the Pope suddenly acquired US fighter planes and aerial platforms.
Anyways, now back to your regularly scheduled program of shitting on America