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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5849815" data-attributes="member: 48469">You constantly whine and bellyache about how corrupt America is and yet you&#039;re perfectly fine with gulping down propaganda coming out of far more corrupt countries like China and Russia.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index[/URL]&quot;The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that ranks countries &quot;by their perceived levels of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector" target="_blank">public sector</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption" target="_blank">corruption</a>, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> The CPI generally defines corruption as an &quot;abuse of entrusted power for private gain&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-cpilong2-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> The index is published annually by the non-governmental organisation <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_International" target="_blank">Transparency International</a> since 1995.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[4]</a>The 2023 CPI, published in January 2024, currently ranks 180 countries &quot;on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt)&quot; based on the situation between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023.&quot;[ATTACH=full]472957[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5849815, member: 48469"] You constantly whine and bellyache about how corrupt America is and yet you're perfectly fine with gulping down propaganda coming out of far more corrupt countries like China and Russia. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index[/URL] "The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that ranks countries "by their perceived levels of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector']public sector[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption']corruption[/URL], as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] The CPI generally defines corruption as an "abuse of entrusted power for private gain".[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-cpilong2-3'][3][/URL] The index is published annually by the non-governmental organisation [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_International']Transparency International[/URL] since 1995.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#cite_note-4'][4][/URL] The 2023 CPI, published in January 2024, currently ranks 180 countries "on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt)" based on the situation between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023." [ATTACH type="full" alt="cpic.png"]472957[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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