This paper focuses on the Amiri Council-led Al-Shaheed Park’s ultra-green grass and lavish landscaping as an element that produces perceptions of corruption and a failing government in Kuwait amongst park users. From the ethnographic research, a relationship between greenery and Eden also comes up, highlighting strong feelings of affection towards Al-Shaheed Park and a want for more ‘green’ projects like it. This papers focuses on ethnographic data that shows how people create associations between greenery and government through certain comparisons. I unpack people’s comparisons of the seemingly ‘perfect’ park with other ‘poor-looking’ municipality-led public spaces at different scales, including streetscapes, neighborhood parks, and public beaches. “Why can’t other public spaces be like Al-Shaheed Park?” The comparisons bring up numerous political questions regarding irrational money distribution, corruption within the municipality, democracy, the role of the Amiri Council, and lacking public amenities. This paper also focuses on archival research and interviews with government employees, which problematically frame parks as modes of urban ‘beautification’ and ‘decoration’. On the contrary, the park signifies something deeper than aesthetics. It points out poor governance, and thus questions current Kuwaiti politics. Public parks stand as complex socio-political spaces with significant potential for people to take social risks in the hopes of enlightening a community. Yet, in an Amiri Council-led project like Al-Shaheed Park, this remains tough. This paper concludes that urban public parks may foster community engagement and thinking, and the constructed environment at large may perform as the terrain for political action in Kuwait, increasing its political agency. I suggest the importance of more municipality-led public parks in Kuwait due to their higher political potential, the significance of studying standing parks beyond beautification terms, and the need to find more sustainable ‘less green’ practices. While Al-Shaheed Park symbolizes a well-functioning successful public project amidst a time of urban stagnation, it highlights both unsustainable landscape architecture practices in a water deficient desert and a limited low-risk political space due to the Amiri Council’s role. Methodologically, this paper employs critical theories on public space and parks, field observations, interviews with public spaces users and governmental employees, and secondary sources from municipality archives including project documents, newspaper articles, and photographs. The ethnographic and archival research took place in Kuwait between January and August in 2019.