GURBANGULY BERDIMUHAMEDOW
JOB: President of Turkmenistan
REPUTATION: World’s weirdest dictator
Post-Soviet Turkmenistan has suffered some of the worst political leadership the world has ever seen. Some of it is pretty boilerplate: its two leaders (since independence in 1991) elected with majorities in the high 90s, a succession of sevenyear presidential terms, endemic corruption and the ruthless stamping out of any dissent – or any freedoms at all, come to that. Six million Turkmens have been subjected to
