The game launches on Thursday, and the participation of a major brand like the NFL here means this will be a closely watched experiment of how successful the online business model Quick Hit uses will be.
Rather than inspiring the Persian Gulf's more authoritarian monarchies to reform, its 46-year-old experiment with limited democracy has often seemed a model to be avoided.
In Milwaukee, the model city for vouchers, where a group of mainly poor black mothers convinced the city's Democratic establishment to experiment, supporters of school choice took over the local school board.