Q: “Has there ever been a government that was not corrupt?”– @Chuck__Sargent Go

–Q: “Has there ever been a government that was not corrupt?”–
@Chuck__Sargent

Governments consist of people. People follow incentives. Absent rules, transparency and accountability, incentives favor corruption. As such most people, and possibly nearly all people, when subject to incentives, and opportunity, in the absence of transparency and accountability, are demonstrably corrupt.
Has there ever been a person immune to corruption?
Sure. I would say some people take pride in their evasion of corruption. I would say that there are those that do not care about the appearance of corruption if they are in fact not acting corruptly. I wold say there are those that engage in systemic corruption – they don’t resist the corruption they are organizationally part of. I would say there are people that engage in rationalization of corruption under the pretense the end result is still moral and good. I would say that there are people who engage in corruption simply because of the possibility of it. I would say there are those that engage in it willingly and self justify it. I would say there are those that engage in corruption out of vindictiveness toward life or polity or some imaginary constraint.
The problem then, given the opportunity for corruption whether in government, business, the private sector, the social or even charity venues, without transparency and accountability and the near universal demand we all expose those who are corrupt regardless of the cost to us, that there is no cure for corruption.