The character as portrayed is actually far worse than any dictator our race could produce. Human dictators tend to stop oppressing and torturing when their victims stop living. This bastard just doesn't know when to quit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'