Is every country really corrupt?

[Fishmo57]

I think corruption is everywhere but in different scales. It depends on mentality and punishment.

[KITTYCOIN on Waves]

I don't know, but everyone from my country thinks that ours is the most corrupt in world. Is it the same in yours too? If so...why, or how come?

Because people in all countries are the same. Monkeys of the species homo sapiens. Therefore, within the framework of our project, we propose: to create our own state without corruption, censorship and prisons. And to assemble in it all normal creative people.

[bakekang008]

I don't know, but everyone from my country thinks that ours is the most corrupt in world. Is it the same in yours too? If so...why, or how come?

Not all country are corrupt. It depends the leader how they handle their people in their community, if they like to corrupt first think of the people that affected, because their are more now suffer hunger because of the corrupt leader.

[Tylerizator]

Corruption is prevalent in almost every country in the world– but some are more corrupt than others.  This is a complete list of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranked in order of how corrupt the country's government is.  Many countries have made it to this list, thanks to its corrupt politicians with illegal money making skills. In these countries of the world, bribery and corruption are rampant. Somalia is ranked the top most corrupt country.You can sort this list of corrupt countries of the world by any column to get the most corrupt countries or least corrupt countries.
so....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index - Almost all

[elisforciel]

Not all are corrupt, there are countries who live simply and some are wealthy, but that doesn't mean they are perfect... sometimes its criminal rate, drug abuse, and others. Corruption can also be observed if there are a lot of families who are economically deprived, if there are plenty of oligarchs handling the basic necessity of people (energy, water, transportation), which the government should be handling. Oligarchs with bad intentions, those who keep on greed and mining on people's invisible pockets (where their money comes from their debts, add up and add up until they die without paying and pass it to their predecessors), these business men should think about the whole being of the country and not their blood sucking corporation. Also, there are some countries who make big-a-deal of foreign relationships than thinking of how their country could be great. Yes foreign relationship is needed, BUT DEPENDING TO IT that much and being a slave from them has its price. They say its democracy but the higher-ups have their hands tied to a different country. THESE HIGHER UPS SHOULD BE TIED TO ITS SUBORDINATES, a.k.a. CITIZENS.

Ever feel bad when there is a wealthy city and on just the side of it, there are slums lying around. Man, if all those roomless condos can serve as shelter for informal settlers (well they can't afford the maintenance...). Egos Egalitarian should be practiced, especially if the country felled to deep depression or just rising or til now and forever because its for the sake of the citizens in it. Likewise, necessity should be handled by government and the country's livelihood must be propagated by business men (at least it helps the country and its resources be known and raise awareness to it).

You can't expect a perfect government/country but if people are taught the correct mindset. Probably.

[Sithara007]

Corruption is prevalent in almost every country in the world– but some are more corrupt than others.  This is a complete list of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranked in order of how corrupt the country's government is.  Many countries have made it to this list, thanks to its corrupt politicians with illegal money making skills. In these countries of the world, bribery and corruption are rampant. Somalia is ranked the top most corrupt country.You can sort this list of corrupt countries of the world by any column to get the most corrupt countries or least corrupt countries.
so....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index - Almost all

You need to draw the line somewhere. If 1 out of 10,000 government employees in a particular country is corrupt, are you going to label that country as a corrupt nation? I don't think so. If 10% or 20% of the employees do that, then you can label that country, but anything less than 1% is tolerable, in my opinion.

[w33man]

I don't know, but everyone from my country thinks that ours is the most corrupt in world. Is it the same in yours too? If so...why, or how come?

I don't agree that every country is corrupt because if that's the case then there will be no successful country in terms of economy. There are still countries that never practices corruption and if they only in small prices, unlike in some countries where they corrupt millions. That is why it is still not right to say that every country is corrupt.

[Temitope]

Not all the countries that are bad. We still have some patriotic citizens. There are some citizens that can be trusted with public fund

[anzhanbei1214068]

I would say yes, we today could get lots of information about GOV corruption.

I think most countries are corrupt.

I think my country is the most corrupt. Nine corrupt officials.

[selen]

there is no shadow without light. i would answer positive, but consider the scale of corruption. obviously the countries differ on spread and how deep it is.

[Elain A.]

yes. only difference is the dimensions of it.

[RaeRivers]

Interesting thing about our country is that everyone thinks that corruption is their fundamental right or they do corruption as their fundamental right. Also say that everyone is doing corruption why I cannot do that. From lower level to upper level everyone is busy in corruption according to this formula.

[LedyVik]

in my opinion all the countries of the world are corrupt. The price is different for each country. But the world is ruled by money, as it is not sad.

[Tylerizator]

Corruption is prevalent in almost every country in the world– but some are more corrupt than others.  This is a complete list of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranked in order of how corrupt the country's government is.  Many countries have made it to this list, thanks to its corrupt politicians with illegal money making skills. In these countries of the world, bribery and corruption are rampant. Somalia is ranked the top most corrupt country.You can sort this list of corrupt countries of the world by any column to get the most corrupt countries or least corrupt countries.
so....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index - Almost all

You need to draw the line somewhere. If 1 out of 10,000 government employees in a particular country is corrupt, are you going to label that country as a corrupt nation? I don't think so. If 10% or 20% of the employees do that, then you can label that country, but anything less than 1% is tolerable, in my opinion.

less than 1%? You must be Joke!
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In short, because at a certain point power moves you from a negative feedback loop to a positive one.
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Humans are social animals. We survive very badly as individuals or family groups, quite well as villages or tribes, and even better as cities or small nations. To operate as an effective society, you have to be nice to each other, it can’t be relentless competition and thinly veiled distrust.

But, at the same time, humans are naturally competitive. Each one wants to be more powerful than the others. Why? Who knows, possibly there’s an evolutionary advantage, possibly not, that’s another question.

Luckily these two desires work against each other. Every 5 year old finds out that demanding everyone plays their game soon means they get ignored and no-one plays with them. Things that give you influence in a society also have a high risk of making you disliked, causing that influence to wane. Our desire to be part of a society limits our desire to control that society. But, at a certain point that stops.

Once you have a sufficient amount of power (be it wealth, political power, whatever), you can actually afford to have large numbers of people dislike you, in return for having small numbers of other powerful people like you - or at least tolerate you for their own ends. Once you get caught in this positive feedback loop, maintaining power (rather than being liked) becomes a pyramid scheme. Corruption is the breaking of social contracts - i.e. being not nice. Legality isn’t the point here. Whether you are bribing someone or just shouting at them, you’re being not nice, and you’re getting away with it because of your power.

Eventually, the powerful become entirely separated from their old society, and now exist in a new, smaller society of people like them, who are also corrupt, thus establishing it as an acceptable behaviour, and the cycle continues.

This is why many societies have forced limits on the accumulation of power. Limits on terms in political office. Anti-monopoly laws. Taxes that penalise the accumulation of very large amounts of wealth. These work to brake the positive feedback (or snowball effect) of power.

[Akupuniard]

I don't think so but probably in every country you can find a lot of persons that corrupted and don't care about others. At my opinion the only way to stop this is monarchy.

[scaramanga1337]

in my opinion ...this is true, unfortunately..and I can't  imagine how it can be changed..corruption exists all over the world and it's been created for so long and everyone is so used to living...and even if you don't know about corruption in your country it will exist... nothing actually changes... it woll  be hard and nearly impossible to find a way out of the situation..

[kerwin T]

Every country in this world is corrupt. Its not just your country. This doesnt mean all people in the country are corrupt but majority of them are corrupt

Not all countries are corrupt, It really depends on the politicians that choose to corrupt instead of serving politely to the country.

[FullMooon]

We cant say that every country is corrupt. Correction is most of the politician has a will to gain on their own wallet. They confusing people on their personal appearance but they have a diffirent adjenda that giving effect to country. They give bad impression.to country.

[novakamena]

in my opinion ...this is true, unfortunately..and I can't  imagine how it can be changed..corruption exists all over the world and it's been created for so long and everyone is so used to living...and even if you don't know about corruption in your country it will exist... nothing actually changes... it woll  be hard and nearly impossible to find a way out of the situation..

No country can boast a complete lack of corruption, but in some countries it is significantly more tangible.

[stely]

Every country in this world is corrupt. Its not just your country. This doesnt mean all people in the country are corrupt but majority of them are corrupt

Not all countries are corrupt, It really depends on the politicians that choose to corrupt instead of serving politely to the country.

Last year it was reported that corruption is widespread in 68% of countries around the world.