Of course it's not linear, it's a ranking. I made no claims as to objective truth, after all, the list is compiled by the World Bank, and ignores any considerat

Of course it's not linear, it's a ranking. I made no claims as to objective truth, after all, the list is compiled by the World Bank, and ignores any consideration other than the cost of doing business. And to put it into additional perspective, some of Nepal's neighbors on the EODB list are the Russian Federation and Nigeria. The thrust of the article was that if you are Nepalese, starting a company in your home country is not as bad as you would expect, but the data would seem to indicate that it would be utter folly for a foreigner to do so.