Aren't too many who don't have boring titles like President or Prime Minister.
Gaddafi calls himself "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution".
Hu Jintao is "Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China".
Khamenei is "Supreme Leader of Iran".
San Marino is led by a pair of "Captains Regent" elected every six months.
Plus a whole slew of Kings, Emirs, Grand Dukes and other monarchist titles.
We need Republics and pseudo-Republics to come up with some interesting names.
but doesn't anyone use the title "Dictator" anymore, or is it now just a perjorative term?
No and really no one ever used the term dictator in history either. Dictator comes from the Roman term for a military leader elected during times of extreme crisis who was given power over the entire Roman government and was allowed to rule by decree until his six month term ended.
After the classical period it seems only Simon Bolivar, who was called Dictator for a single year of his reign, and the leaders of some of the anti-Russian uprisings in Poland styled themselves dictators. Beyond that most use terms such as President or crazier titles like Qaddafi's depending upon their personalities.
Also I found this fun little website linked from the Wikipedia dictator page:
http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/English/English_welcome.htm.
The Current Dictator of the Month is Rafael Trujillo.
