The next GCT "Seatwarmer". Maybe this time really install a
super tyrant so that Lieutenant Li can save us peasants
from the evil bastard, like his letter to his superior
officers.
You people should read or watch Dune with regards to Baron
Harkonnen. A part of the story is that Baron Harkonnen is major bad
guy in charge of a planet with resources. He has two nephews,
one a thug and the other a sophisticated bad guy groomed to be his
sucessor. He allows Thug nephew to brutalize the natives in order
for the other nephew to come across as the hero, but in fact still
a tyrant.
From Wikipedia:
"As Dune begins, Feyd-Rautha figures heavily in the
Baron's plans to gain power for House Harkonnen. The Baron favors
the handsome and charismatic Feyd over Feyd's older brother
Glossu
Rabban ("The Beast") because of Feyd's extreme
intelligence and his dedication to the Harkonnen culture of
carefully-planned and subtly executed sadism and cruelty, as opposed to
Rabban's outright brutality.
Feyd is, for a while, the Baron's heir, or na-Baron. To assure
Feyd's power, the Baron intends to install him as ruler of Arrakis after a
period of tyrannical misrule by Rabban, making Feyd appear to be
the savior of the people."