Metaverse gaming platform The Sandbox and Saudi Arabia have come to an understanding of some sort. Details were not provided.
Sandbox co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget took to LinkedIn to announce the news. It was a true honor to sign our [memorandum of understanding] partnership
between The Sandbox and the Saudi Arabia Digital Government Authority, he wrote. We look forward to exploring, advising and supporting mutually each other in activations of the Metaverse!Source https://www.theblock.co/post/209458/saudi-arabia-the-sandbox-agree-to-collaborate-on-metaverse-projects With this i am sensing some serious money flows coming in. Saudi money is in whole different level and first thing that came to mind was collaboration with the smart city called "The Line".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_ArabiaProjects like that can give a glimpse how much money are they dealing with.
However them being Saudi Arabia i am thinking they would have some ideas with censorship and any critizism of politics could end up being a problem.