If I were a power-mad dictator, I would at least do the country a few favors: make child labor illegal again, banning prison slavery, decriminalizing homelessness, legalizing gas cans that will actually let you put gas in things, rather than just spill all over yourself, and all non-embedded computing devices would be strictly banned, except a cycle-accurate reimplementation of the PDP-10 Model KS10, which a freshly nationalized HPE would be required to produce in high volume. A slightly modernized version of ITS would be the only permitted operating system. There would be strict limits on total disk storage, but there would be no limits on 9 track tape reels. No tape robots, though. Oh, and the WPA would be reinstated, tasked with fixing all the bridges they built, last time around.