An entire country's total annual exports being $2 million is bottom-of-the-barrel impoverished. A movie that grosses only $2 million would be considered extremely poorly performing.
The British built infrastructure and introduced legal systems to the Gulf nations that helped them modernize.
Yes. Afghanistan has the problems that it does because they follow Islam & have among the lowest average IQ in Earth. This is why conservatives generally oppose Islam and want the ooga boogas expelled from the West.