The more resources a state controls (allocations, licenses, jobs, housing, foreign currency), the higher the potential rent-seeking. When ideology forbids acknowledging systemic corruption, it creates a double life : official discourse of purity, unofficial reality of bribery, blat (personal connections), and nomenklatura privilege. The USSR, Maoist China, and contemporary Cuba all exhibited/ exhibit this friction. High ideological commitment correlates with higher actual corruption in terms of resource extraction because there are no legal markets as alternatives.
If corruption is a symptom of ideological war, then anti-corruption campaigns are merely new weapons in that war. In Lebanon, an anti-corruption judge is not seen as a neutral arbiter; he is seen as a Christian, Sunni, or Shia operative. Because ideological friction is high, every enforcement action is interpreted as a sectarian attack. ideology in friction corruption level
Ideology in Friction , the "Corruption" level is a core game mechanic tied to the protagonist's moral decline, specifically driven by committing murders. How to Raise Corruption The more resources a state controls (allocations, licenses,