Environment & Energy

You have to bribe people to get anything done.
Anyone in power demands a cut of bribes.

And no regulation, in China houses and buildings just fall apart and there is no recourse.
People have to continue to pay the mortgage on a building that no longer exists.

I read a story about corruption in the Russian Army.
An officer learned that a private had striped an Army jeep and sold the tires
and parts. The officer beat the private, not because he had stolen Army property,
but because he didn't give the officer the obligatory cut of the theft profits.