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I partially disagree with your comment about corruption. This part:"Turkey on the other hand is rampant with corruption, especially the current government."

Corruption on upper levels probably never disappears, but at least on the lower levels, where people really got hurt and dreaded most, things got better with current government. As someone who lived in Turkey for quite long time, I can say I was pleasantly surprised that one didn't have to bribe anyone buy a small property. Before, it would be impossible to buy property without bribing everyone in the land register office including janitor and tea server.

Also, in the recent perceived corruption index charts Turkey's position is not so bad, wish it is much better (54.th in 176 countries, Singapore is 5th. Source: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results)

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Interesting map, but I have to question it a bit. I mean, Switzerland is 6th which speaks highly to their local situation, but their banks enable all manner of international corruptions.

Excellent comment - the saga of stolen Jewish stuff took just a wee while to start to be repatriated...

The fact that swiss banks stuck to their rules and required ownership to be established in the normal way even in the wake of such a dramatic tragedy speaks to their incorruptibility.

It's a pity that wasn't done with the initial deposits.

Huh? The burden of proof for for pulling property out of someone else's account in their name is and should be higher than for depositing things in your own account.

Absolutely agree. Some of the looted stuff was obviously just that however, and they hung onto it rather too long as well. Just who they should give it back to wouldn't have been easy though.

USA, the land of the free - land of no corruption - land of emancipator - land of liberating bombings - land of the powerful, ranks 9. Wow! Interesting map.

I really do not know what this map considered as corruption. A little explanation shall sure help!

RTFM? The source questions are listed in the download.

The list I'm looking at ranks the US at 19th. did something change drastically in the last 9 hours?

Also, who says the US is the "land of no corruption"? The US has some famously corrupt cities, states, senators, even a President or two, and has throughout its history. I don't think we're claiming superiority in that department. Are we?

I've never had to bribe anyone, ever in the US. In my parent's home country this is absolutely not true.

I hate this overly cynical "i get all my politics and ideas from wikileaks and reddit" on how horrible the US. The US is a fairly pleasant place to live in. If you think a speeding ticket is oppression then its really time to grow up.

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