I was watching one of Korean tv shows and I stumbled upon this. And it intrigues me on how wealthy he is and how he spends his money lavishly compared to the other richest billionaires. His net worth according to Forbes is estimated around $20 billion in 2008. But they only based it on public assets. Since his privacy is kept well (because he is royal afterall), no one knows how much he is worth.
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"Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, is the richest king in the world. He established the welfare heaven with astronomical wealth. With a dollar, the locals can get high-tech medical services. Not only that, they get free education from primary to university - exempted from tuition as well as getting allowance. It's a god-level welfare." - SBS, LOJ (2015)
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There is no poverty in the country.
Not his house looking like a huge mall filled with gold.
The Istana Nurul Iman palace is the official residence of the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah. The
palace contains 1,788 rooms, which includes 257 bathrooms, a banquet hall that can be expanded to accommodate up to 5,000 guests, a mosque accommodating 1,500 people. The palace also includes a 110-car garage, an air conditioned stable for the Sultan's 200 polo ponies, and 5 swimming pools. In total, Istana Nurul Iman contains 2,152,782 square feet (200,000 mē) of floorspace. The Sultan has one of the world's largest and most expensive and rarest car collections and
owns over 7000 cars.According to Guinness World Records the Sultan’s personal private collection has more than 600 Rolls-Royces, more than 450 Ferraris, and 134 Koenigseggs — the largest collection of that brand in the world. All of the things he owns are painted with 24k gold. Even his planes, his cars, his floor tiles, his camera collection.
Everything is gold.

He owns dozens of lands and estates across the world, namely the UK, Asia and America (Vegas, New York etc). He also owns luxurious hotels, yachts, businesses. His royal family has investment agency which is worth $30 billion.
Look at his son's recent wedding ceremony. Everything is splashed with gold.