Democracy fails...

[JuliaL]

Democracies and democratic republics, or any form government for that matter, are only as good as the people who comprise them. If the people of nation are immoral, then they will elect immoral people. I'd rather live under a benevolent dictator than in a corrupt democracy.

Except that dictators are as likely to be corrupt as anyone. Especially when you deify them like the Kim Jongs of North Korea. Having one guy at the top that is in charge of everyone doesn't work for everyone else. That's a big reason why most people don't like Yahweh.

Hence insistence on the specification "benevolent."
These are hard to come by. A despot like Lee Kuan Yew (now dead) is hard to find and just as hard to find a successor for.
So Lek accepts a perfect benign dictator. One that is perfect because it is imaginary, the only place where perfection exists.
Personally, I prefer Havelock Vetinary, patrician of Ankh-Morpork.

Several attempts have been made on Vetinari's life or position; strangely enough, he seems to be involved in most of them.