Current Dictatorships

I made this quiz with the data of the NGO Freedom House, who defined a country ruled by a dictator as a "not-free" country, meaning a country where "individual freedoms - ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or nonstate actors." Coming from this perspective, being elected doesn't necessarily mean ruling over a free country. A lot of Head of States in this list have been elected - Putin, Maduro, Kagame, even Lukashenko - but with elections not being perceived as free and equal, the term "democratic" looses a lot of its implicit meaning.

Like I said in previous comments as well as the description, this quiz solely relies on the statistics from the NGO Freedom House and I therefore am not the originator of this differentiation. I only transformed the data into a quiz.

But aside from that aspect, I think Freedom House does actually differentiate between absolute monarchs and dictators. That why the Vatican is not featured in this list, while Bhutan and Nepal weren't declared dictatorships in older listings (before they abandoned their absolute monarchies in 2006 and 2008). While there are certainly differences between a classical dictatorship and an absolute monarchy, the rulers of Saudi-Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Brunei and Eswatini also qualify as corrupted monarchies, or in other words as tyrants. The differentiation between an modern-day absolute ruler, a tyrant, a despote or a dictator is quite fluid and therefore exceeds the purpose of this quiz.