>>514789021 (OP)
If you look into how this "Corruption Perception Index" actually works, they basically just ask the WEF, the World Bank and a bunch of Western neoliberal think tanks if they believe a certain country to be "corrupt" and then report it as fact. And then, surprise surprise, they all come to the conclusion that the West is a bastion of fairness and integrity, while the "bad guy" countries are all corrupt dystopian dictatorships.
If the CPI was a measure of the public's perception of corruption, then Ireland would be deep in the red due to the non-stop deluge of "overspending" scandals for the past 3 decades, and somewhere like China would be squeaky clean because China regularly doles out life sentences (and the occasional death penalty) for corruption. The reality of the situation is that the US and Europe are far more corrupt than even the worst African shithole because there's simply far more money to be plundered from the public coffers in the West than there is in the global South.