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There are alot of outstanding examples in this field, but who in you opinion stands aside from the rest in their awfulness?
Also just for constricting options, I'm not really thinking of Eastern/Greek emperors. I'm sure that there are a bunch of western ones I'd forgotten which are alot worse than some of the ones on the poll, so apologies in advance.
My picks:
Worst for his people: Caracalla. He had the same levels of atrocities as the other bad ones, but he went around the whole empire committing them rathar than restricting them to one zone. After killing his brother, he had 1/4 of the population of Alexandria killed because one person made a poem suggesting that he was guilty. Massive texes ruined the economy and corrupted the army, he would spend massive sums on palaces in each new city he would visit that went vacant after short use.
Worst for the empire: Honorius. You could say there were many people before him who were nescissary to make his sucktitude possible, and that is probably true, but he had a reasonable foundation to build on coming after Theodosius. He pretty much did everything in his power to make sure rome was indefensible, eleminating his best generals and troops before the sack of Rome. He moved the capital to Ravenna where he would be secure while the rest of Italy was pillaged. Also during his reign you could say the final collapse began, and the empire was ruled alot more by barbarians during/after it.