SAUDI Arabia has ruled its citizens can no longer mock or make fun out of, well, anything as part of a crackdown on public dissent.

The Arab kingdom says it will punish those who produce or share satirical online content that disturbs public order.

In a tweet on Monday, the Public Prosecution said “producing and distributing content that ridicules, mocks, provokes and disrupts public order, religious values and public morals through social media... will be considered a cybercrime punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of three millions riyals ($800,000).”

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has been leading the clampdown on critics at the same time that he’s pushing an economic overhaul and loosening some social restrictions.

In the past year, the government has arrested dozens of clerics, intellectuals, businessmen and activists from across the political spectrum, tightening a once relatively permissive space for public discourse in the authoritarian kingdom.