In third world countries, if you're wealthy (by local standards), you can grease the wheels with bribes, or better yet, cheaply outsource tasks to "consultants"

In third world countries, if you're wealthy (by local standards), you can grease the wheels with bribes, or better yet, cheaply outsource tasks to "consultants" who know exactly how to navigate the system and pay the bribes on your behalf, giving you plausible denialability. Need an Indonesian multi-year business visa? $200 to the right "visa consultant" and it's yours in days. As far as I can tell, this is not an option in Germany, certainly not cheaply. Healy, one of the global companies that does this kind of thing, wants €14000 to create a GmBH for you, and I'm pretty sure that doesn't speed up things, it just makes it somebody else's headache.