Read up on Saparmurat Niyazov (Türkmenbaşy) if you want to see our future.
1.) in 2002 he renamed the days of the week and the months (including naming January after himself).
2.) He made it mandatory for schools to teach his autobiography, Ruhnama, and eventually it became part of the test required for people to get driver's licenses. He famously stated that the only two needed books were Ruhnama and the Koran.
3.) Created a new Turkmen alphabet
4.) Closed the Academy of Sciences
5.) Shut down the internet in 2000
6.) Closed all hospitals outside of the capital.
7.) Closed all libraries outside of the capital.
8.) Cut pensions causing the deaths of thousands
9.) Removed all dogs from the capital
10.) Replaced the word for bread with his mother's name
11.) When he quit smoking, he made it illegal in public and for all government employees
12.) He banned car radios
13.) Banned video games
14.) Required doctors to say an oath to him instead of reciting the Hippocratic Oath.
15.) Built a mosque that could hold 10,000 people as his mausoleum where he put scriptures from both the Koran AND Ruhnama on the walls.
Although not everything was bad as he did ban lip synching at concerts in public.