I'm Albanian born in America. My parents grew up under the Enver Hoxha regime. Hoxha was an insane bunker maniac. He admired Josef Stalin and the ways he governed. HOXHA made Albania the North Korea of Europe. We were isolated after we broke ties with China in 1978. Enver Hoxha often purged his leadership and accused anyone as a Yugoslav, Russian, or Chinese spy. This is true to his best friend and Comrade-in-Arms Mehmet Shehu, who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1981. Most believe Hoxha killed Mehmet himself, while others believe Hoxha ordered it. Hoxha was just like Kim - he made a state cult of himself. He banned ALL RELIGION in 1967. Albania became the first ATHEIST STATE IN HISTORY. Hoxha was truly a maniac during the 40 years of his reign.
I can hear the jingle now!!! -I'm Pot Pot the Slayer Man -I'm Pot Pot the Slayer Man -I'm such a brutal lunatic because I enslaved 25 million and worked them hard even when they were sick -Cause I'm Pot Pot the Slayer Maaaaaan
Most of these are not "CRAZIER than NORTH KOREA". Pol Pot was crazier, and he is not in the list. Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov was crazier, renaming the days of the week after himself and family, and he's not in the list either.
I would love to see Simon revisit some of these dictatorships and countries to see what happened in the last four years. For instance Myanmar and Belarus specifically.
I did a report on Togo in grade school, so around 87ish, and there was NO information about their loony leader! Then I realize that was pre-google. I might have found Togo interesting if I had access! A little half inch paragraph in an encyclopedia just plain sucks. Simon, you are my hero! You make everything SO engaging and I just love that English humor! Thanks, keep em Cummin!
I've always had a strange fascination with Myanmar and Borneo. Whenever I get fed up with life I shout about how I'm "going to Myanmar!" or "moving to Borneo!" Those two always come up first. Weird.
Idi Amin? he was a saint in comparison to Museveni. plus museveni has been in power for so many years. longer than any ugandan president and the country has gone to shit.
Doctor Who Fan Audio Plays at one time every Christian in Japan was killed. In Saudi you “can” be killed for leaving Islam.. That is in most Islamic countries.. These are the top ten despotic dictators. There is no way that Saudi belongs on this list ...
I think you did not factor in the fact that North Korea still has concentration camps. North Korea has the worst dictatorship and should be no.1 on this list.
Lol I'm surprised Turkmenistan didn't make this list. The ways they were forced to worship their leader rivaled North Korea back in the day. Kind of disagree with the Belarus assessment though. He's an autocrat but it is a relatively soft dictaorship. I have met Plenty of Belarusian youtubers who are able to say "Alexander Grigoryevich? Oh yeah, he has his moments." Plus the "local language," assuming you are referring to Belarusian, is used by less than 10% of the people on a daily basis and has been that way for decades. Now I'm all in favor of reviving the language but I wrote a whole 8-page paper for class, part of which was for debunking the myth that Lukashenko killed it.
From what I've read, Nicolai Ceaucescu died singing the Romanian National Anthem, and his wife Elena was just screaming "YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!" Interestingly, I think every single one of the people actually named is listed in a book I have called "100 Monsters" And FINALLY someone mentioned Lukashenko!
Dunno if you've had these on former dictator videos but here goes, Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia), Somoza Dynasty (Nicaragua), Lopez dynasty (Paraguay), Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), Hissene Habre (Chad), Charles Taylor (Liberia), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (Mongolia), Ngo Dinh Diem (S-Vietnam), Sukarno & Suharto (Indonesia), Hugo Banzer (Bolivia) etc...
As much as it's kind of cool to see what extra info got cut in places, it's not in a very easy to read format, and kinda screws with those of us who rely on subtitles. Have you considered, instead, taking all those extra bits of unused transcript and putting them down the bottom of the video description? :) These are cool videos in general, though.
What about Papa "Doc" who dressed like Baron Samedi and sacrificed to him? He had diabetes and had a heart attack afterwards he was totally different he thought he was the reincarnation of the under world lord/ loa Baron Samedi.
If anything Hoxha's Albania was slightly _less_ crazy than North Korea, certainly no worse. At least after Hoxha's passing they didn't try to pretend that he was still in charge.
north Korea is not dictatorship North Korea is a democratic republic and their leader is loved by his people and is a supreme leaders his people love him so much that everyone has a picture of him
Tempest its propaganda of United state and the imperialism, but he doesnt talk about his country that invade another countrys, Barack Hussein Obama Bim Ladem kills a lot of kids in the east every day but nobody say nothing, George Bush hitler did the same, and dont forget about Israel and Britain, the alliance that is the real axis of evil.. ps: Kim jong un is not a dictator. dictator: a person who control all the country by its own, the people dont have access to anything socialism: control of all the country by the people and POLITICALLY is control by a party, in the case of N.K is the Work party
Trollololol yeah i know he is brittish, and i mentioned it, the alliance between the 3 countries, and i forgot to talk about the English Monarchy, its like a dictatorship, talking bout democracy but tell me when Queen Elizabeth was elected by the population? He is talking about North Korea but Britain have a queen that control all the country and not only the Britain island no.. they control a lot of countries that they call "colonies" wow Britain is not a dictatorship..
Trollololol and if we talk about N.K they are more democratic, the population controls all the productions, the legislation etc.. Kim Jong Un is only the Leader of the party but the legislator camera is control by another power and its elected by the population, Kim Jong Un doesnt control that, and its stupid to think that, How Kim Jong Un can control all if N.k has legislators, a lot of legislators and he cannot decide by his own.
Ricardo Herrera Whilst Queen Elizabeth does have political power, she does not make the decisions over the laws of the United Kingdom, nor would any British monarch. Parliament, the elected and more powerful portion of the government in the UK, is in control of that, and has been for a long time. But hey, that's my point of view.
Ṧẽɞẙ ǤⱥɱïňʛČħåɳŋȇʟ Ok. I wonder if its pronounced with a "J". Btw she also held numerous degrees in arts & science. I mean according to herself, that is. Theres even a song thay isnt so popular anymore I guess.
Sergio Bocanegra Your comment shows your lack of knowledge on him, he hates all illegals, and he didn't call Hispanics rapist, he called illegals rapist.
Lukashenka? Seriously? Let me tell you, during the communist times, our Soviet anti-Western propaganda was pretty ridiculous. Or so we thought; now that we all have internet it turns out it was mostly true, and that the actually ridiculous propaganda is the Western anti-Rus one.
I live in Belarus it's not so bad I mean like I eat food once a week and my dads been abducted for sneezing during a ceremony honoring our president but at least I'm not dead yet...
A couple of notes: nobody called him Seko...everyone called him Mobutu. And he wasn't deposed in a coup - it was an external invasion ostensibly led by Laurent Kabila, the father of Joseph Kabila.
In Mongolia during the 20's a Russian general named Sternberg took over and started sacrifices to honor the Budda, and tried to recreate the Mongol Empire
*Patient:* "Doctor, Doctor! I am very unwell, my chest is tight and I no sleep in five days." *Doctor:* "Come, come, sit here. Open your mouth and say 'Ah'." *Patient:* "How bad is it?? Is it curable??" *Doctor:* "No worry, you have *Toto Under Gnassingbe Eyadema* It should run its course in a few more years."
flattenig 2 mountains for romanian "people palace"?? really ? i am from romanian and no mountain is missing:P.. from where you took this part?..just curios
really? Belarus? don't me wrong, that guy doesn't deserve to be in power but he is tame compared to the rest of the list. he should of been replaced with Islam Karimov. Now that guy is awful.
They should also had mentioned Idi Amin and Pol Pot. Idi Amin would have someone wiped out, and go on the news media and say "O, he just met with an accident." Pol Pot tried to wipe out all traces of the old Cambodian culture, and forced city dwellers to relocate to the countryside and become "reeducated." He had death camps like Hitler, and was responsible for the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians.
It's surprising that Belarus is the number one in this list with most of the atrocities I've never heard of. Instead they should have put Turkmenistan under Niyazov in this list.
2:47 "On the plus side, he did the decent thing and died"
lol
TopTenz
TopTenz rr
Aftertaste U SEE MOST DICTATOR WERE MEN OF COLOR MOSTLY BLACK LIKE OBAAMA OUR DICTATOR
Rick Adamson He's not a dictator at all
@@firstlast7584 he totally was.
Me: He's pretty bad.
Narrator: And he did the decent thing and..
Me: Oh he did something good?
Narrator: Died.
Me: Ohhhh.
I'm Albanian born in America. My parents grew up under the Enver Hoxha regime. Hoxha was an insane bunker maniac. He admired Josef Stalin and the ways he governed. HOXHA made Albania the North Korea of Europe. We were isolated after we broke ties with China in 1978.
Enver Hoxha often purged his leadership and accused anyone as a Yugoslav, Russian, or Chinese spy. This is true to his best friend and Comrade-in-Arms Mehmet Shehu, who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1981. Most believe Hoxha killed Mehmet himself, while others believe Hoxha ordered it.
Hoxha was just like Kim - he made a state cult of himself. He banned ALL RELIGION in 1967. Albania became the first ATHEIST STATE IN HISTORY. Hoxha was truly a maniac during the 40 years of his reign.
Yes he was
The first atheist State? Wasn't the Soviet Union/Russia the first one?
I know this,me too. I have albanian parents as well
Illyrian King Wasn’t Turkey the first atheïst state?
I'm part Serbian, and he's the person that you have no choice BUT to make political jokes about. Both nations.
I kind of expected Cambodia under Pol Pot to take the top spot.
Also too true!
so it should be top 20...World can be pretty horrible place
I can hear the jingle now!!!
-I'm Pot Pot the Slayer Man
-I'm Pot Pot the Slayer Man
-I'm such a brutal lunatic because I enslaved 25 million and worked them hard even when they were sick
-Cause I'm Pot Pot the Slayer Maaaaaan
And Idi Amin
He and the Khmer Rouge were evil. But not really crazy.
Most of these are not "CRAZIER than NORTH KOREA".
Pol Pot was crazier, and he is not in the list.
Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov was crazier, renaming the days of the week after himself and family, and he's not in the list either.
I would love to see Simon revisit some of these dictatorships and countries to see what happened in the last four years. For instance Myanmar and Belarus specifically.
Surprised I didn't see my mothers name on here
loool
ooooooooohhhhhhh gonna need aloe vera after that
ha
She's in a league of her own 😕
Hey, me too!
where is Pol pot
I was wondering that as well. Maybe he was trying to go for lesser-known examples?
Was thinking the same thing, guy murdered thousands and made children to be murderers. Not much of what was mentioned compares to that guy.
hi
Pol Pot was a great leader. People just mad he helped cure some overpopulation.
@@Skittler
What's with your obsession with overpopulation?
Simon, as someone who lived through some of those coups, love the way you presented number three.
Jean-Bedel Bokassa apparently gave an entirely new meaning to the entree named "finger food".
I did a report on Togo in grade school, so around 87ish, and there was NO information about their loony leader! Then I realize that was pre-google.
I might have found Togo interesting if I had access! A little half inch paragraph in an encyclopedia just plain sucks.
Simon, you are my hero! You make everything SO engaging and I just love that English humor!
Thanks, keep em Cummin!
What about Mugabe. The Zimbabwe president
Not anymore
Eric Palmer he is not that bad. I’m from Zimbabwe
@@josephheliel2401 haha
@Joseph Heliel: So the murder of 10000 Ndebeles is "not bad"?
@@josephheliel2401 and like half of your kinsman,you left because of the hyperinflation and lack of food?
I've always had a strange fascination with Myanmar and Borneo. Whenever I get fed up with life I shout about how I'm "going to Myanmar!" or "moving to Borneo!"
Those two always come up first. Weird.
What about Uganda under Idi Amin?
Idi Amin? he was a saint in comparison to Museveni. plus museveni has been in power for so many years. longer than any ugandan president and the country has gone to shit.
Remember "Worse than North Korea" I think ISIS is like at the same state of "bad" as Kim Jong Un
areasevenpro too mainstream
areasevenpro he Nintendo da wae
That just population control. Idi was a great man and an inspiring leader.
Hey Simon, John Higgs here. Love your content. Great way to relax after work and to get new and obscure data to annoy my friends with.
general aladeen?
You genius 😂
its aladeen instead of aladeen
Well technically he didn't actually execute anyone, so he shouldnt be considered an evil dictator
Saudi Arabia comes to mind.
not really i'm a filipino and I live in Saudi Arabia and it's pretty nice there but there is a lot of restrictions😂
@@Madrazo1423 People can get killed by converting to Christianity.
Neil Brook It isn’t nearly as bad, please stop pretending it is. 😪
No way it is in the top ten..
Doctor Who Fan Audio Plays at one time every Christian in Japan was killed.
In Saudi you “can” be killed for leaving Islam..
That is in most Islamic countries..
These are the top ten despotic dictators.
There is no way that Saudi belongs on this list ...
The hipster beard comment aged about as well as the Myanmar segment.
Why do the subtitles not follow what Simon's saying?
I don't know, since I don't have a use for them since I understand English, as it is my language.
How did Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge not end up on this list? I was just assuming it would be number one.
I think you did not factor in the fact that North Korea still has concentration camps.
North Korea has the worst dictatorship and should be no.1 on this list.
How about Turkmenbashi? That guy was looney tunes!
loaf
wheat
white
whole grain
Despite of being self centric, he didnt kill much
Whoever does the subtitles, thanks for the extra info in this one! Really informative. 😀
No, I dont believe it
¡¡WHERE'S THE BEARD!!🤣🤣
Lol I'm surprised Turkmenistan didn't make this list. The ways they were forced to worship their leader rivaled North Korea back in the day.
Kind of disagree with the Belarus assessment though. He's an autocrat but it is a relatively soft dictaorship. I have met Plenty of Belarusian youtubers who are able to say "Alexander Grigoryevich? Oh yeah, he has his moments." Plus the "local language," assuming you are referring to Belarusian, is used by less than 10% of the people on a daily basis and has been that way for decades. Now I'm all in favor of reviving the language but I wrote a whole 8-page paper for class, part of which was for debunking the myth that Lukashenko killed it.
From what I've read, Nicolai Ceaucescu died singing the Romanian National Anthem, and his wife Elena was just screaming "YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!" Interestingly, I think every single one of the people actually named is listed in a book I have called "100 Monsters" And FINALLY someone mentioned Lukashenko!
belarus isn't worse than north korea i've been there and its a good place
Can you please, do a video of the "top 10 most brutal dictators that are in power right now".
"On the plus side he did the decent thing and died-" LMAOOO
Dunno if you've had these on former dictator videos but here goes, Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia), Somoza Dynasty (Nicaragua), Lopez dynasty (Paraguay), Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), Hissene Habre (Chad), Charles Taylor (Liberia), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (Mongolia), Ngo Dinh Diem (S-Vietnam), Sukarno & Suharto (Indonesia), Hugo Banzer (Bolivia) etc...
Misleading title. Thought he'd mention current dictatorships. had no idea from the title.
TopTenz damn you a savage
The title only says, "Dictatorships CRAZIER than NORTH KOREA", no mention of CURRENT ones. That shouldn't be misleading enough.
TopTenz Same.
Kaiser Katto number one?
LMFAO!! You nonchalantly said "On the plus side he did the decent thing and died." The best line in this video!!Your delivery was great!!!! 02:47
As much as it's kind of cool to see what extra info got cut in places, it's not in a very easy to read format, and kinda screws with those of us who rely on subtitles. Have you considered, instead, taking all those extra bits of unused transcript and putting them down the bottom of the video description? :) These are cool videos in general, though.
As bad as all these were, none are worse than the Kim dynasty (except maybe the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which isn't even included)
I think of Belarus as a "wildlife preserve" for the old Soviet police state.
Still can't believe my mother in law didn't make the cut.
Belarus? Iv'e been there and it seems ;ike normal modern eastern european country
I used to own one of their tractors.
Great channel
Thanx a bunch
You missed an obvious one, Newcastle United FC! Mike Ashley is one mad lad
The time, when Simon's beard & competitive capitalist nature were under the skin.
😜
i can NEVER watch just on of these videos lol i watch one and then i go on a binge lol i think I'm on #4 right now lol
What about Papa "Doc" who dressed like Baron Samedi and sacrificed to him? He had diabetes and had a heart attack afterwards he was totally different he thought he was the reincarnation of the under world lord/ loa Baron Samedi.
It almost seems like these countries are finding there leader at the local nut house.
No.8 sure didn't age well...
Looks like that democracy thing didn't work out so well for Myanmar :(
nah nah it will ,but not that easy
What about Robert Mugabe
I think you forgott Germany under Merkel
And Austria under Strache (2018). 3:-)
Socialism now!
EU under Merkel**
Im in germany..... but yeah i agree with this comment xD lol
+TheMagicPeanut wo aus Deutschland?
Fahrzhad Bayern...... wieso?
Love your videos
man, keep up the good work :-))
If anything Hoxha's Albania was slightly _less_ crazy than North Korea, certainly no worse. At least after Hoxha's passing they didn't try to pretend that he was still in charge.
Lukashenko? Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
The Myanmar part has become very relevant recently
north Korea is not dictatorship North Korea is a democratic republic and their leader is loved by his people and is a supreme leaders his people love him so much that everyone has a picture of him
arsam kiani please tell me your joking.
Jack Parker lolz of course I am
Kim Jong Un: *Carefully take notes
Belarus isn't a dictatorship
It is, but at Turkey's level of dictatorship...
and the DPRK runs election, so what?
+Ray Liang it's technically democratic
And so is the DPRK. Again so what?
+Ray Liang That's what I said, and this has nothing to do with Belarus not being a dictatorship yet stated in the video
That last guy on your list looks like Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.
are you going to redo this video after trump won.
your ignorant
You know, it's people like you that are the reason Trump's so popular now.
***** I'm a grammar jew.....
Change Trump to Bernie and maybe he might!
+Noah Monnig no you're ignorant. got to work on your grammar buddy.
What about Idi Amin? Pol Pot, Papa Doc and Baby Doc?
Is this a joke/satire video, or just propaganda?
Tempest its propaganda of United state and the imperialism, but he doesnt talk about his country that invade another countrys, Barack Hussein Obama Bim Ladem kills a lot of kids in the east every day but nobody say nothing, George Bush hitler did the same, and dont forget about Israel and Britain, the alliance that is the real axis of evil..
ps: Kim jong un is not a dictator.
dictator: a person who control all the country by its own, the people dont have access to anything
socialism: control of all the country by the people and POLITICALLY is control by a party, in the case of N.K is the Work party
Officially, yes, they are more socialist.
Unofficially, Kim Jong Un does everything in his power to be the ONLY power, making it a true dictatorship.
Trollololol yeah i know he is brittish, and i mentioned it, the alliance between the 3 countries, and i forgot to talk about the English Monarchy, its like a dictatorship, talking bout democracy but tell me when Queen Elizabeth was elected by the population? He is talking about North Korea but Britain have a queen that control all the country and not only the Britain island no.. they control a lot of countries that they call "colonies" wow Britain is not a dictatorship..
Trollololol and if we talk about N.K they are more democratic, the population controls all the productions, the legislation etc.. Kim Jong Un is only the Leader of the party but the legislator camera is control by another power and its elected by the population, Kim Jong Un doesnt control that, and its stupid to think that, How Kim Jong Un can control all if N.k has legislators, a lot of legislators and he cannot decide by his own.
Ricardo Herrera Whilst Queen Elizabeth does have political power, she does not make the decisions over the laws of the United Kingdom, nor would any British monarch. Parliament, the elected and more powerful portion of the government in the UK, is in control of that, and has been for a long time.
But hey, that's my point of view.
So glad u grew that beard lol
Nicolae Ceausescu wasn t so bad!
I doubt any civilian who lived in Romania under his regime would agree with you.
Atleast he and Jelena would have made sure you had plenty of "games" to attend to in order to keep you warm. Lol !
Um it says Elena not Jelena
Ṧẽɞẙ ǤⱥɱïňʛČħåɳŋȇʟ
Ok. I wonder if its pronounced
with a "J". Btw she also held numerous
degrees in arts & science. I mean
according to herself, that is. Theres even a
song thay isnt so popular anymore
I guess.
Ceaucescu orderd people to springle green leaves in his path while he was walking. That takes the cake as the craziest
You forgot Donald Trump.
soon it will be there
When you have no reason to hate Trump but you listen to social media
+tummy1029 I have plenty of reasons to hate trump.
Sergio Bocanegra Your comment shows your lack of knowledge on him, he hates all illegals, and he didn't call Hispanics rapist, he called illegals rapist.
MrWar2244 Please give me one other than "He's racist"
Lukashenka? Seriously? Let me tell you, during the communist times, our Soviet anti-Western propaganda was pretty ridiculous. Or so we thought; now that we all have internet it turns out it was mostly true, and that the actually ridiculous propaganda is the Western anti-Rus one.
why is jacob zuma not on this list ?
And also robert mogabe
XD I laughed out loud for real at the part "he did the decent thing and DIED" XD XD
These vids would be watchable if Baldy wasnt in it .
Hes annoying .
Just play the vids and narrate it , he doesnt have too be in it .
***** Bald / Hair ....No matter which , he kills the vid .
Just Upload the Vid and narrate it .
More people would watch it .
Im surprised the fact that the execution of Romanian guy and his wife was televised was not mentioned. The wife was even crazier btw.
I live in Belarus it's not so bad I mean like I eat food once a week and my dads been abducted for sneezing during a ceremony honoring our president but at least I'm not dead yet...
"When he finally had the decency to die of a heart attack". Newspapers should publish this if Putin or Lukashenko or Maduro are gone
I am surprised you don't have Idi Amin on this list. Love your lists, keep up the excellent job
Can't believe my mother in law wasn't # 1 on the list
Being stuck in the 1950s like North Korea is a lot worse than all of these
cheers mate
A couple of notes: nobody called him Seko...everyone called him Mobutu. And he wasn't deposed in a coup - it was an external invasion ostensibly led by Laurent Kabila, the father of Joseph Kabila.
In Mongolia during the 20's a Russian general named Sternberg took over and started sacrifices to honor the Budda, and tried to recreate the Mongol Empire
I'd say Pol Pot was crazier than half these guys. Mugabe should be on here too.
amazing, your punch line has me lol. Thanks very informative.
Surprised Idi Amin Dada's not there in your list.
I wonder if any of Mobutu Sese Seko's leopard skin hats were leopard skin pillbox hats.
It's no wonder if he
the people decide to hire assassins to take these guys out. I mean the world would be a better place without them.
Enver Hoxha: I hated Hipsters before it was cool.
Mobutu still holds the world record in corruption and plundering. His privat wealth was larger than the external public debts.
*Patient:* "Doctor, Doctor! I am very unwell, my chest is tight and I no sleep in five days."
*Doctor:* "Come, come, sit here. Open your mouth and say 'Ah'."
*Patient:* "How bad is it?? Is it curable??"
*Doctor:* "No worry, you have *Toto Under Gnassingbe Eyadema* It should run its course in a few more years."
Lunging forward at your cam every time you complete a phrase xD
1:49...might need to walk that one back :(
flattenig 2 mountains for romanian "people palace"?? really ? i am from romanian and no mountain is missing:P.. from where you took this part?..just curios
I like the bonus facts in the CC
so polite when saying they died lmao! kindly passed away from a heart attack! :-D
What he made it illegal to make a joke must have been the prime minster of Britain
The Zaire guy looks like the father in "coming to america"
Sauds should be mentioned too.
Crazy and crazy with a nuke are two different things
really? Belarus? don't me wrong, that guy doesn't deserve to be in power but he is tame compared to the rest of the list. he should of been replaced with Islam Karimov. Now that guy is awful.
I'd like to see top 10 BEST dictators. Who actually made things better for their populace?
The Saudi Kings or the Gulf state dictators brought & shared oil wealth to their people, who were still poor nomads and fishermen in the 50s.
They should also had mentioned Idi Amin and Pol Pot. Idi Amin would have someone wiped out, and go on the news media and say "O, he just met with an accident." Pol Pot tried to wipe out all traces of the old Cambodian culture, and forced city dwellers to relocate to the countryside and become "reeducated." He had death camps like Hitler, and was responsible for the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians.
and I thought North Korea was a place with a crazy dictator. damn.
just out of curiosity, why does he keep looking to his left?
My dad remembers Enver Hoxha he made sure everyone went to school and work
I didn't see anything here "crazier" than North Korea--only nations that either were AS crazy, or approaching North Korea on the crazy-scale.
It's surprising that Belarus is the number one in this list with most of the atrocities I've never heard of. Instead they should have put Turkmenistan under Niyazov in this list.
For some reason a lot of these Dictators have some sort of hat fetich...