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Every nation does have corruption. Corruption is not a binary.

• drewcoo 4y ago
  If every nation had it, it would not be a binary. It would be a gradient characteristic, like temperature. And given that nations are made of people and people are corruptible, that actually sounds about right.
• deaddodo 4y ago
  Which is precisely the point. When you say a nation is "corrupt", you're generally referring to one that is notable for that factor. Because otherwise the term is meaningless (because every nation does have corruption). As a complementary example, you could argue all legislation is authoritarian; but describing a nation as "authoritarian" in the general (vs specific, as in certain laws/bills) goes above and beyond "normal" legislation.