Which country is the most corrupt according to your experiences?

United States of America (USA) 19
Canada 0
Mexico 2
England 0
Scotland 0
Wales 1
Ireland 0
Greenland 0
Iceland 0
Finland 0
Norway 0
Sweden 0
France 0
Germany 0
Netherlands 0
Belgium 0
Denmark 0
Latvia 1
Estonia 0
Lithuania 0
Poland 0
Czech Republic 0
Slovak Republic 0
Hungary 0
Belarus 0
Russia 3
Ukraine 0
Romania 1
Bulgaria 2
Albania 1
Switzerland 1
Austria 0
Croatia 0
Yugoslavia 0
Luxembourg 0
Greece 0
Macedonia 0
Moldova 0
Italy 1
Portugal 0
Spain 1
Georgia (Country) 0
Turkey 0
Syria 0
Iraq 1
Iran 0
Jordan 0
Israel 2
Lebanon 0
Azerbaijan 0
Armenia 0
Saudi Arabia 0
Yemen 0
Oman 0
Afghanistan 1
Pakistan 2
Kazakstan 0
Uzbekistan 1
Kyrgyzstan 0
Tajikistan 0
Turkenistan 1
United Arab Emirates (UAE) 0
India 0
Kuwait 0
Nepal 0
China 1
Japan 1
Bhutan 0
Mongolia 0
Burma 0
Bangladesh 0
Thailand 0
Laos 0
Vietnam 0
Cambodia 0
North Korea 11
South Korea 1
Phillippines 0
Indonesia 0
Malaysia 0
Australia 0
New Zealand 0
Jamaica 0
Haiti 0
Cuba 0
Barbados 0
Bahamas 0
Libya 0
Egypt 1
Chad 0
Sudan 0
Ethiopia 0
Somali 2
Niger 0
Nigeria 0
Cameroon 0
Algeria 0
Morocco 0
Madagascar 0
Republic of the Congo 0
Namibia 0
Botswana 0
Zambia 0
Tanzania 0
Kenya 1
Uganda 0
Mozambique 0
South Africa 0
Mali 0
Burkina Faso 0
Mauritania 0
Senegal 0
Central African Republic 0
Tunisia 0
Ivory Coast 0
Ghana 0
Liberia 0
Lesotho 0
Angola 0
Zimbabwe 0
Puerto Rico 0
Guatemala 0
Belize 0
El Salvador 0
Honduras 0
Costa Rica 0
Panama 0
Nicaragua 0
Columbia 0
Brazil 4
Bolivia 0
Chile 0
Argentina 0
Venezuela 0
Peru 0
Ecuador 0
Paraguay 0
Uraguay 0
Guyana 0
Surinam 0
French Guiana 1
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Comments ( 17 )
  • anti-hero

    North Korea.

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    • disthing

      NK got my vote, too.

      I can't think of any other country right now that is getting away with what they are getting away with. It's horrendous.

      Of course there are unstable African countries (e.g. Somalia) that have serious corruption problems, too, and could justify a vote.

      Corruption is one of those things that's difficult to quantify, though.

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  • thegypsysailor

    I honestly believe that the US is the most corrupt country on earth.
    The Wall Street hustlers caused a world wide depression, stole the homes and livelihoods of millions of hard working people, and bankrupted their own companies. And what happens? They get rewarded with billion dollar bonuses and their banks get billion dollar bailouts from the taxes of they very people they ruined.
    No other country has corruption on this scale. It may not be the nickle and dime corruption that most think of, a bribe here, a payoff there, but it is most assuredly corruption on a grand scale.
    Did you know that if a member of congress gets convicted of corruption while in office, gets fired and imprisoned for his crime, that he will still collect his pension while serving his time for being a corrupt politician and for the rest of his life? In America, it PAYS to be corrupt!

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    • disthing

      I honestly don't understand how somebody can believe that unless they live in an isolated bubble.

      The US has corruption, but the MOST corrupt country in the world?!

      I can think of plenty of countries with systemic corruption of a greater degree than the US: North Korea, Somalia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Russia, Belarus... I could go on.

      Everybody loves to hate America, including Americans it seems. But the world doesn't revolve around the US, and corruption is so much more apparent, destructive and disabling in so many other countries around the world...

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      • thegypsysailor

        Has the corruption in any one of the countries you mentioned, or all together for that matter, thrown the world into a depression like we've seen over the last 5 years or so?
        I don't think you are looking at this with an unbiased eye. With a lifetime of world traveling behind me, I just can't think of any place that parallels the US for corruption on such a grand scale.

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        • disthing

          I am looking at it with less bias than you.

          Yes, unscrupulous investment bankers with too greater freedom to practice unethical banking can damage national and subsequently international economies, as we've seen in recent history. This isn't exclusive to the US in any way, it just so happens that the US economy faltering has more of a global impact than the economy of smaller, less influential countries.

          In other words, the knock-on effect of bad bankers in the US is greater than the knock-effect of bad bankers in, say, Hungary. But the corruption isn't necessarily any greater.

          Furthermore, financial corruption is only one piece of the pie.

          Americans can, for the most part, trust that if they've been assaulted, robbed or raped the police will assist in catching the guilty party. Americans can, for the most part, climb the socioeconomic ladder at least a few rungs within most industries through hard work (meritocracy). Americans can, for the most part, influence politics if they try to. Americans can, for the most part, afford food, petrol (gas) and clothes, and there's a welfare system in place to try and protect the poorest. Americans can, for the most part, speak negatively about their government, their country, their politicians etc. without being imprisoned or killed.

          That can't be said for all of the countries on my list.

          The kind of corruption in North Korea means that if you don't like your leader, stay quiet or die. If you've been assaulted, raped or robbed by someone in a greater position of power, stay quiet or die. You want to create a political change? Nope. You want to leave North Korea? No. Sure you can read and write, but don't read or write anything The Party don't want you to, or you'll be in trouble.

          How many Americans do you know who died directly as a result of the recent global financial crisis? Do you know any?

          How many people do you think died during North Korea's financial crisis in the early 90s? Up to 3 million.

          Honestly, if you think you live in the MOST corrupt nation on earth, and you say you've travelled the world, I don't know what to say except we clearly have very different definitions of corruption.

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    • VirgilManly

      God bless America!
      We're #1 at everything.

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      • thegypsysailor

        Indeed!.

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  • dom180

    My experiences of politics are only in one country, and that experience is pretty minimal. I can't say I can ever remember personally experiencing corruption, which I'm pleased to say.

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  • Hargito

    Right here we go...America is by far the most corrupt in the world beyond comparison to anywhere else, most of you are looking at the aspect of that other countries are very war orientated and make many lives suffer, its not about how evil a country is, its about its corruption. the whole of america is a lie, there are countless lies, secrets and cover ups as well as a really bad system to make sure that certain things dont reveal to the world, im not going to get into it all as there is too much to say but the answers are all out there for those who truly wish to seek the truth in the world. america hide everything from us and lie to our faces and shadow the things in the world which mankind deserves to know, thats true corruption...making the world live in denial, everything that happens in america is planned by a much higher form of organisation which controls everything that happens which no one realizes, there whole government is just a group that serves a higher authority to keep the world quiet and blind as well as full of fear.

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  • InsanityShotgun

    How unfortunate the states was on top of the list. Dunno about you guys but I picked it because I was too lazy to find North Korea. Also let's get real there's no better scape goat then the states.

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  • where they torture for enternainment and money and stone their mothers

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  • BluePegasus

    People who are dead serious voting for United States versus some of these other countries should probably take a good long reality check. Sure, we have some scumlords, but wow. Hopefully that was your vote because the U.S. is all you have 'experiences' with.

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  • linchpin

    Brazil

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  • myownopinions

    Not country; people.

    And according to my experiences, I haven't even been to half of the countries listed on your poll.

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  • dinz

    Well when I was in Malaysia, my cousin was pick pocketed so we proceeded to the nearest police station to report it.

    A officer said they had a backlog of incidents to go thru and the earliest we could get a written report was in a week's time. We were leaving the country in two days so he suggested we pay a "fee" to speed up the process as we wanted it for insurance purposes.

    So I sensed something was fishy when he asked for cash only when there was a card machine right in front of us. My cousin who happened to speak Indonesian (which is similar to Malay) overheard the officer telling another officer to "hurry up before he comes in" ("he" being, we assumed was their superior). We just took off from the station, we honestly felt it was too much of a hassle to deal with these corrupt people.

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  • MasterOfWaffles

    Where is teh 'They all suck' option?

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