Most developing countries have a... loose notion of rule of law and following the rules. Even the ones with all-powerful dictatorships (China, Egypt), or relati

Most developing countries have a... loose notion of rule of law and following the rules. Even the ones with all-powerful dictatorships (China, Egypt), or relatively far along in their economic development/consolidation (Israel when I was growing up, Turkey). There's a sort of critical mass you need to get people to follow rules like this, since enforcing them against an uncooperative majority requires impractical amounts of policing resources, whereas once most people are following the rules it's easy to deter the smaller number of rule-breakers. Similar to the concept of "tax morale".