I always thought North Korea's Kim Jong-Il had the nutjob market cornered but it looks like Turkmenistan is offering some comptetition. President-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov is offering assured admittance to Heaven for readers of his philosophical writings. The collection is called "Rukhnama" or "Ruhnama" and your very own ticket to eternal bliss may be viewed and purchased here.
This seems to follow a trend that flourishes among dictators who apparently fancy themselves literary prodigies. Kim Jong-Il is an expert on cinema, Fidel Castro analyzes current geopolitics and economics, Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel before he was deposed, and Hugo Chavez wrote the introduction to a biography of Simon Bolivar.
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