As you no doubt already know (because you watch New World Next Week every week, right?), the world's largest oil company is set to go (partially) public in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that will offer shares of the company on the Tadawul—Saudi Arabia's domestic stock exchange in December.

While this may seem like just another over-hyped economic non-event, the bigger truth is that this isn't an economic event at all. It's a geopolitical event that will determine Saudi Arabia's role in the coming New (Technocratic) World Order; it's a financial event that reflects the perilous state of the global monetary order; and, if it doesn't go well, it's an event that threatens to collapse the Saudi government itself.

So get your pen and paper ready. Here's everything you need to know about the Saudi Aramco IPO but didn't know to ask.