You know you're a brutal dictator when...

...you are based in a COMPOUND. Apparently you can't have a house, headquarters or office - it's got to be a compound. Not sure what a compound looks like exactly, but I have a feeling the design does not alter radically from dictatorship to dictatorship. Barbed wire, towering walls and machine-gun turrets are probably standard fixtures.

Even better if you've got a bunker as well! Then you know you're a top fascist.