You'll either get extremely lucky, and get "Five Good Emperors" like the Roman Empire. But in reality, most of the time, you'll get unlucky, and get a shitty tyrant Emperor, who wastes money on him self. Then he gets assassinated, civil war, and then Dictatorship. Military Dictatorships tend to suck at ruling a country, then they fracture, in fighting, and civil war.
A transparent Dictator would be cool though.
A transparent Dictator would be cool though.