[austroscot]

> How do you deal with international companies and billionaires who are richer than your entire nation?

I think drawing correlations between country size/population/gdp/wealth and corruption is going to be difficult. However, arguably, looking at smaller countries we should see this trend at a similar rate. I'd suggest comparing with extremes: two, much smaller European countries.

- Andorra; pop: ~90k, GDP per capita (2016, est.) ~36k USD

- San Marino; pop: ~35k, GDP per capita (2017, est.) ~45k USD

I spent a while looking in to them, but then started thinking "how do you measure corruption"? I came across a 'corruption perception index (2017)'[1], which aggregates different measures of corruption across various sources, but sadly they have no data for either countries. Comparing them with neighbouring countries however, would put them right in the ball park of Malta.

[1] https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...