Not strip mining the treasury for personal pleasure would already make for a huge improvement over your average dictator, also Turkmenistan has a shit ton of LNG so it's strategically important
To understand communist communication strategy, imagine an army of three year olds trained rigorously from birth to coordinate their lies so that when one of them breaks a cookie jar, 10,000 of them start screaming on TV, in print and on the internet that a bad dog did it.