Not to defend your typical mendacious megacorp and its dishonest ways, but we should also focus attention on the other site of this equation, the governments op

Not to defend your typical mendacious megacorp and its dishonest ways, but we should also focus attention on the other site of this equation, the governments operating in many countries. They're usually pervasively, profoundly corrupt across many levels and will often actively encourage a culture of massive bribes by creating a regulatory environment so stifling that no other means of getting any project or major process done exists. Often they'll simply ignore their own laws to stop investment projects until someone coughs up money on an extra-official basis. I'm not talking about these governments honestly and in good faith creating and applying regulations for the well-being of their own nation. I'm referring to laws so byzantine that they're in place more as a dragnet for bribes, which is applied only selectively on a pay as you go & stop when you don't basis.