Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese wiki have an article about “Power of a phone call” (Law by a phone call), which is when in a corrupted state you can solve any problem by calling someone powerful you’re connected to.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%84...
https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%...