Has any nation ever recovered from rampant corruption?

If not, which nation got the closest?

>>17861728 (OP)
>rampant corruption
Loaded Language
If we can't establish a standard for what you even mean by "rampant corruption" then your question is just going to illicit emotional and dishonest responses. Which I'm sure was already your intention.

>>17861733
Fair. In my country, you can't get into politics or become a cop without seeing a corrupt colleague. Everyone knows about it, but the odds of the guy actually getting punished are low and the odds of you getting "in trouble" is high. Militias are common, politicians financed by factions are common, judges with "friends", etc. But worse, even the kids have an "advantage first mentality". Essentially, it is impregnated in every level of the culture and country.

I'm wondering if any country has ever recovered from anything this bad or worse, if that's even possible.

>>17861728 (OP)
Idk maybe Athens.
>The Draconian constitution, or Draco's code, was a written law code enforced by Draco in Athens near the end of the 7th century BC; its composition started around 621 BC. It was written in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats.[4] As most societies in Ancient Greece codified basic law during the mid-seventh century BC,[5] Athenian oral law was manipulated by the aristocracy[6] until the emergence of Draco's code. Around 621 BC the people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the title of the first legislator of Athens. The literate could read the code at a central location accessible to anyone. This enactment of a rule of law was an early manifestation of Athenian democracy
>Solon's reforms included debt relief later known and celebrated among Athenians as the seisachtheia (shaking off of burdens). He is described by Aristotle in the Athenian Constitution as "the first people's champion". Demosthenes credited Solon's reforms with starting a golden age

>>17861728 (OP)
The United States

>Jackson was an intensely partisan individual, in the most personal sense: his world was divided into friends to be enriched, and enemies to be extinguished.
>When Davy Crockett famously said "Since you have chosen a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas," it was because Jackson had successfully sought his electoral defeat and backed his peg-legged opponent Adam Huntsman, using electioneering techniques, alleged Crockett, that were dishonorable if not explicitly corrupt. Crockett was targeted—in his words "hunted down like a wild varmint"—in part because he declined to endorse Jackson's inebriate nephew for a government job, and in part because he was the only Representative from Tennessee who voted against Indian Removal

>>17861728 (OP)
Corruption happens when people get in power and then hire their family members and gatekeep outsiders. This is a problem everywhere, even in the job market. It would be easier to state where its not prevalent at all.

>>17861733
Nta but government officials enriching themselves and their family at the expense of the people, typically in violation of the law