Ratko: The Dictator's Son. National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son is a 2010 American teen comedy film directed by Savage Steve Holland. The film was produced by Intermedia Films and Cinetel Films and was distributed by National Lampoon Inc. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The sources almost invariably record that the first act of a newly appointed dictator was to name his magister equitum or “master of the horse,” usually at his own discretion. Endowed with consular imperium, the magister equitum was second-in-command to the dictator and subordinate to him alone (Polyb.

Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a polity. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency.