If you have strict parents who have set numerous seemingly unfair rules then consider yourself lucky that they aren't Saparmurat Niyazov who was Turkmenistan's president for life from 1990 when his country was still under Soviet control until his death in 2006.

Why you ask? Well, he banned a lot of things like make-up for presenters and reporters, gold teeth, lip syncing at concerts, opera, ballet and circuses and beards. People were also banned from owning more than one cat or dog!

He renamed the Turkmen words for bread and April after his mother (Gurbansoltan).The month of January was renamed after him. Dogs were
forbidden from the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat for their unpleasant odour and men couldn't even have long hair let alone beards as Niyazov
linked the two to Islamic extremism. The only hospitals that were open in the country were in the capital and conscripts took the place of doctors.

Niyazov isolated Turkmenistan from the outside world and had everyone refer to him as Turkmenbashi (Father of All Turkmen) which was just one of the many things he had for his cult of personality. Like all dictatorships, Turkmenistan had only one party and anyone who opposed him were exiled or jailed. If you want to have a job or even drive a car in Turkmenistan, you would have to read and know off by heart his book
and the currency had his portrait all over it!

He died of a heart attack in December 2006, the very same month that fellow dictators Augusto Pinochet (Chilean dictator) and Saddam Hussein (Iraqi dictator) died in.