A Dictatorship is when a country is ruled by one person who holds all the power and answers to no one.
No, that would be Italy.
The climax is that the Buadelairs get abondoned from the colony just as Count Olaf finds a disguise and claims to be Kit Snicket. Kit was pregnant and to make himself look pregnant he puts a diving helmet filled with Medusoid Mycelium, a very dangerous poison, under his dress. When he goes to the leader the leader shoots the diving helmet and poisons the whole colony.