An idea for a short story:

A Marxist revolution topples the government of a small Latin American nation. To curry favor with international creditors, the leaders of the new regime promise to honor the public debts of the state, but not the personal debts of the former dictator. The task of sorting and separating the two falls to an idealistic young accountant. Left alone in the presidential palace, in the chaotic early days of the revolution, he must open every cabinet, annotate every invoice, value every personal item, and, so doing, perhaps come to terms with where the private life of the tyrant ended and the public life of the state began in a nation ruled by one man's whim.