The real power behind a dictator. The one that gives orders to the dictator and the one the dictator answers to.
Her countrymen/countryfolk saved the pussytator a place on the guillotine with her husband, since she was not above suspicion and wasn't doing a good job. She wasn't getting out of it because she was a female, there had already been enough females to try that excuse.
The pussytator didn't seem to have any real power because her face wasn't on a coin, it was hidden from public view (sometimes in plain sight), which was misleading since she was the real power behind the dictator.