MICHAEL TOTTEN: The Second-Most Megalomaniacal Dictator on Earth. “He’s the ruler of—where else?—one of the ‘Stans. Turkmenistan, to be exact, where the post-Soviet period is exactly like its Soviet period. Berdimuhamedov just erected a 69-foot statue of himself in the center of Ashgabat, the capital. He’s up there on a golden horse atop an enormous slab of marble that looks like an iceberg.” Erdogan’s got to be in the top 5, though.