Transparency International, the global watchdogs of governmental corruption and bribery, have released the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, or CPI, the global ranking of corruption by country.  It’s organized in the above handy map, with the darker red countries being more corrupt and the yellow countries being least corrupt.  According to the CPI, Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, while Denmark is again the last corrupt nation on Earth.

The United States, thanks to the troubles with our economic system, decreased in corruption ranking, dropping from 19th last year to 22nd this year.  “We’re not talking about corruption in the sense of breaking the law,” said Nancy Boswell, Transparency International’s US president.  “We’re talking about a sense that the system is corrupted by these practices.  There’s an integrity deficit.”  Also falling were Greece and Italy, for different reasons.

It makes you wonder why Greenland, in pleasant gray, has no reported data.  Are they so corrupt there’s no point in reporting, or so non-corrupt that nobody bothered to brag about it?  Maybe the volcano just threw off measurements or something.  Maybe they tried to bribe the CPI investigators!

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