Kleptocracy

Kleptocracy, literally meaning Rule of Thieves and in the context of Polcompball also known as Anocracy is an ideology used to describe a form of government in which power is held primarily by criminals, corrupt officials, self-interested post-party oligarchs and such. Kleptocracy is often found in countries that collapsed after being  Marxist–Leninist One-Party States and transitioned rather unsuccessfully, an infamous case is  Russia.

Liberal democracies can also suffer from this they might develop shadow kleptocracies that influence the government through legal means such as lobbying or illegal means such as bribery in order to gain favors from government officials. This phenomenon is called corruption.

This ideology ball could be seen as libertarian right but unlike other librights, he does not like competition. As a matter of fact, he prefers to form oligarchies to preserve his existing economic power through  Plutocracy or  Corporatocracy.

Foundations
The mechanisms of the state government are devoted almost entirely to taxing the resources and the population of the country, by means of taxes, diversion of funds, etc. The leaders of the system enlarge great personal fortunes, especially the highest position of head of state (like the president or prime minister), along with those closest to them such as ministers, governors, mayors and personal advisers. The money is laundered or diverted to secret bank accounts, usually in tax havens, as a cover for embezzlement or theft.

The economies of kleptocratic regimes tend to decline constantly, as the systematic corruption engendered by the government means that the economy is subordinate to the interests of the kleptocrats.

Historically, the socio-political environment associated with the colonial system - the domination of colonized countries, where their economies are very vulnerable as they depend on a small number of raw materials - has been particularly prone to the creation of the last kleptocracies: Africa, Latin America and also Post-Soviet states are the most prone regions.

The stealthy nature of corruption makes it difficult to combat, as there is often very little information about the identity of the corrupt. Furthermore, in many developing countries, the institutions that monitor corruption are themselves corrupt, and the media are ineffective in reporting such acts or straight up glorify followers of kleptocracy (see:RT)

[[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy
Notable Italian example of Kleptocracy is the where he would hand out governmental power hold of power by Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi where he was found to have abused his position through Bribery, Defamation, and Soliciting minors.

[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia [[File:United Russia.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Ukraine
In Ukraine, Kleptocracy is associated with the rule of two presidents: Leonid Kuchma (1994-2004) and  Viktor Yanukovych (2010-2014).

Kuchmism is a term used to describe the period of rule of President Leonid Kuchma, who was the President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2004. Kuchism was a result of old Soviet era officials and regional criminal elites merging together and is one of many post-Soviet regimes. The term was coined by the organization "Pora! (black)" (It's time!) in the late March, 2004.

Some of its main features include:
 * Concentration of power in the hands of a single financial-multiparty corporation.
 * Union of legislative, executive and judicial power as an integral mechanism of control over society and guaranteeing the permanence of the regime with the help of "power structures" not controlled by the public.
 * High levels of corruption and the power of various [[File:Oligarchy.png]] oligarchic clans, but mainly from Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) and Donetsk.

It's also important to know that during Kuchma's presidency Pavlo Lazarenko, who was later charged with money laundering and extortion was the Prime Minister from 1996 to 1997.

During the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych (2010-2014), some forms of Kuchmism can be seen again, however Donetsk clan had more power. Following the Revolution of Dignity (or Euromaidan), on February 21, 2014, he fled the country.

The majority of corrupt politicians in the country have extremely close ties with Russia. High levels of corruption are still visible to this day.

Party of Regions and the parties that formed shortly after its disbandment in 2014, ilike Opposition Bloc, Opposition Platform - For Life, Our Land, Revival and Nashi, all classify themselves as social liberal but are almost always authoritarian, kleptocratic and oligarchic in nature.

These parties have the following charachteristics:
 * [[File:Anti-LGBT.png]] Anti-LGBT
 * [[File:Antiwest.png]] Anti-Western rhetoric
 * [[File:Authoritarian_Conservatism.png]] Authoritarian Conservatism
 * [[File:Euroscept.png]] Euroscepticism
 * [[File:Orth.png]] Loyalty to UOC (Moscow Pathriarchate)
 * [[File:Ukrainophobe.png]] Ukrainophobia
 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russophilia
 * [[File:Socauth.png]] Social "Liberalism"
 * [[File:ML.png]] Soviet Nostalgia

Personality
Kleptocracy is immensely shady and will do almost anything to get as much money and power as possible. Unlike the libertarian right ideologies, he openly advocates for an  authoritarian state to preserve his power with minor concessions to the people to keep them satisfied, whether this be appeals to social conservatism or liberal welfare with a lot of red tape. In essence, he should be portrayed as offering protection solely if there are huge clauses attached, not unlike a gangster offering protection, hence him being portrayed as a prisoner.

How to Draw
Klept_flag.svg Kleptocracy's design is based on the stereotypical striped prisoner outfit.
 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) On the ball draw a hat
 * 3) On the ball draw a number of vertical alternating black bars
 * 4) On the hat draw a number of horizontal alternating black bars
 * 5) Add the eyes and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File: Authcap.png]] Authoritarian Capitalism - Wanna drill oil?
 * [[File: Corp.png]] Corporatocracy - My #1 business partner.
 * [[File: Strato.png]] Stratocracy - Who's a good boy? You are!
 * [[File:Bankocracy.png]] Bankocracy - Why rob banks when you OWN the banks? So I can rob 'em too!
 * [[File:Krater.png]] Kraterocracy - Taking what's yours. I like the way you work.
 * [[File:Illeg.png]] Illegalism - So what if I make some money under the table?
 * [[File:Oligarchy.png]] Oligarchy - The only form of government that actually exists! We usually work together!
 * [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy - The only other form of government that exists! We work great in Belarus.
 * [[File:Plutocrat.png]] Plutocracy - Most rich people are criminals, and that's based.
 * [[File:Timocracy.png]] Timocracy - Most landlords are criminals, or so I was told... Based anyway.
 * [[File:PolState.png]] Police Statism - As long as I'm in power, they'll do whatever I say.
 * [[File:Abmon.png]] Absolute Monarchism - Henry VIII was epic ngl.
 * [[File:Mach.png]] Machiavellianism - Corruption is a tool of power.

Frenemies

 * [[File: Cap.png]] Capitalism - I'm not a "crony capitalist" or a "criminal"! You're just an old fashioned dumbass.
 * [[File: Property.png]] Propertarianism - What I own is mine and what you own is also mine, so give me protection money bitch!
 * [[File: ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - You tried to stop me but you failed. (Thanks for selling me all your stuff moron!)
 * [[File: Mediastocracy flair.png]] Mediacracy - Take this money and praise me, but if you try to criticize me, I'll have you thrown out of the balcony.
 * [[file:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - Apparently he's gay for me, but yet he still continues the sanctions here in Russia.
 * [[File:Euras.png]] Fourth Theory - Supports me in Russia for some reason but he hates me everywhere else.
 * [[File:Pop.png]] Populism - Hehe, some people are stupid enough to believe his nonsense. He's not even noticing that he's getting me into power. What a fool.
 * [[File:Dengf.png]] Dengism - Once he was based, but Xi Jinping had betrayed me and started to arrest me!

Enemies

 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism - This bastard sent his Black Shirts to destroy me, but the mafia won in the end. (Also what the hell kinda brainwashing did you do to your men where they would rather die than betray you?)
 * [[File:Arist.png]] Aristocracy - For fuck's sake, your "honorable" ancestor was probably just a scumbag like me.
 * [[File: Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - Nobody is incorruptible. Even you can be bought. What's the price?
 * [[File: Dem.png]] Democracy - Sorry to burst your bubble but this ideology doesn't exist.
 * [[File:Krit.png]] Kritarchy - Bitter internal enemy immune to bribery and my bane of existence.
 * [[File: Stalin.png]] Stalinism - Fuck you, I'm never going back to a gulag ever again! Still, your robbery of a bank in 1907 was based.
 * [[File:Libertarian.png]] Libertarianism - This moron thinks monopolies are a bad thing.
 * [[File:Zapa.png]] Neozapatismo - Viva PRI!
 * [[File: Long.png]] Longism - Share the wealth? NEVER!
 * [[File:Ancap-0.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - What do you mean every government is criminal... only me.
 * All [[File:Libright-yellow.png]] Libertarian Right ideologies - dA gUbRmInT iZ kRiMnUlL oRgAnIz - Always has been...
 * All [[File: Libleft.png]] Libertarian Left ideologies - They're even worse than LibRights and I'm their worst nightmare.
 * [[File:Ike.png]] Eisenhowerism - This moron thought that the military–industrial complex is a bad thing.
 * [[File:Mansphere.png]] Мужское государство - I'll designate you as a extremist for attempting radical information warfare against the current government, despite you embrace Russian Nationalism.
 * Any ideology that is hard on crime or goes against wealth hoarding.

Literature

 * Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
 * The Struggle for Russia by [[File:Yeltsin.png]] Boris Yeltsin
 * Putinism: the Ideology by Anne Applebaum

Wikipedia

 * Kleptocracy
 * Anocracy
 * Mafia State
 * Crony Capitalism
 * Nepotism
 * Corruption in Italy
 * Pandora Papers

Infamous corruption scandals, anti-corruption campaings, and trials relating to corruption

 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Campaign fincance in the United States
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Dark Money
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Watergate scandal [[File:Nixon.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Alberto Fujimori's arrest and trial [[File:Fujimori.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Corruption in Russia [[File:Putin.png]] [[File:Yeltsin.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Corruption in Ukraine [[File:Partyofregions.png]] [[File:Oppobloc.png]] [[File:Oppoplatforlife.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Corruption in China [[File:Plutocrat.png]][[File:Klep.png]][[File:Jiang_Tze-min.png]][[File:PolState.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Wang Lijun incident
 * [[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping [[File:Jiang_Tze-min.png]][[File:Klep.png]][[File:Plutocrat.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Corruption in the Philippines [[File:Duterte.png]] [[File:Marcos.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Political dynasties in the Philippines
 * [[File:Cball-South_Africa.png]] Corruption in South Africa
 * [[File:Cball-South_Africa.png]] 2021 South African unrest
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Corruption in Brazil
 * Operation Car Wash
 * [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] 1MDB Scandal
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu
 * [[File:Cball-France.png]] Nicolas Sarkozy corruption trial [[File:Le republic.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Dutch childcare benefits scandal [[File:VVD-icon.png]]

People

 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Boris Yeltsin [[File:Yeltsin.png]]
 * [[File:Yeltsin.png]] Yeltsinism
 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Vladimir Putin [[File:United Russia.png]]
 * [[File:Putin.png]] Putinism
 * [[File:Cball-Kazakhstan.png]] Nursultan Nazarbayev
 * [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Leonid Kuchma [[File:Kuchma.png]]
 * Kuchmism (in Ukrainian)
 * Dnipropetrovs'k clan (in Ukrainian)
 * [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Pavlo Lazarenko
 * [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Viktor Yanukovych [[File:Partyofregions.png]]
 * Yanukovych "family" (in Ukrainian)
 * Donetsk clan (in Ukrainian)
 * [[File:Cball-Uzbekistan.png]] Islam Karimov
 * [[File:Cball-Tajikistan.png]] Emomali Rahmon
 * [[File:Cball-Turkmenistan.png]] Saparmurat Niyazov [[File:Niyazov.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Turkmenistan.png]] Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow [[File:Niyazov.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Armenia.png]] Serzh Sargsyan
 * [[File:Cball-Azerbaijan.png]] Ilham Aliyev [[File:YAP(Azerbaijan).png]]
 * [[File:Cball-RepublicOfCuba.png]] Fulgencio Batista [[File:Batista.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-DRCongo.png]] Mobutu Sese Seko [[File:Mobutism.png]]
 * [[File:Mobutism.png]] Mobutism
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Ferdinand Marcos [[File:Marcos.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]]Joseph Estrada
 * [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Mahathir Mohamad [[File:Mahathir.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Najib Razak [[File:UMNO.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Ahmad Zahid Hamidi [[File:UMNO.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Tengku Zafrul Aziz [[File:Bankocracy.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Suharto [[File:Suharto.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Ulysses S. Grant
 * Grantism
 * Stalwarts
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Richard Nixon [[File:Nixon.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] Spiro Agnew
 * [[File:Cball-Haiti.png]] Jean-Claude Duvalier [[File:Duvalier.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Panama.png]] Manuel Noriega
 * [[File:Cball-Nicaragua.png]] Arnoldo Alemán
 * [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]]Chiang Kai-shek [[File:3princ.png]]
 * [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Muammar Gaddafi
 * [[File:Cball-Nigeria.png]] Sani Abacha
 * [[File:Cball-Zimbabwe.png]] Robert Mugabe [[File:Mug.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-South Africa.png]] Jacob Zuma
 * [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Alberto Fujimori [[File:Fujimori.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Keiko Fujimori [[File:KeikoFujimori.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Serbia.png]] Slobodan Milošević
 * [[File:Cball-Montenegro.png]] Milo Đukanović [[File:DPS.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Jiang Zemin [[File:Jiang Tze-min.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Bo Xilai
 * [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Chen Shui-bian
 * [[File:Thailand.png]] Thaksin Shinawatra
 * [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Hosni Mubarak [[File:NDP(Egypt).png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Silvio Berlusconi
 * [[File:Argentina.png]] Carlos Menem [[File:Pron.png]]
 * [[File:Argentina.png]] Cristina Kirchner
 * [[File:Cball-Bulgaria.png]] Boyko Borisov
 * [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] Park Geun-hye
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Benjamin Netanyahu
 * [[File:Cball-Serbia.png]] Aleksandar Vučić
 * [[File:Cball-Romania.png]] Liviu Dragnea
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Michel Temer
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Plutarco Elías Calles
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Carlos Salinas de Gortari
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Felipe Calderón
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Enrique Peña Nieto
 * [[File:Cball-IRAfghanistan.png]]Ashraf Ghani
 * [[File:Cball-Sudan.png]] Omar al-Bashir
 * [[File:Cball-Ecuador.png]] Abdalá Bucaram
 * [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Andrej Babiš
 * [[file:Cball-Poland.png]] Marcin Plichta
 * [[file:Amber-Gold.png]] Amber Gold
 * [[file:OLT.png]] OLT Express
 * [[File:Cball-Chile.png]] Ricardo Lagos
 * [[File:Cball-Chile.png]] Franco Parisi [[File:PDGChile.png]]
 * [[file:Cball-Gambia.png]] Yahya Jammeh
 * [[File:NeoBingo.png]] Carpfam

Political Parties

 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] United Russia [[File:United Russia.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Party of Regions [[File:Partyofregions.png]]
 * [[File:Oppobloc.png]] Opposition Bloc
 * [[File:Oppoplatforlife.png]] Opposition Platform — For Life
 * [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] Party of Sharii [[File:Sharii.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-RepublicOfCuba.png]] Progressive Action Party [[File:Batista.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Forza Italia
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Institutional Revolutionary Party
 * [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Popular Force [[File:Fujimori.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Turkmenistan.png]] Democratic Party of Turkmenistan [[File:Niyazov.png]]
 * [[File:Mobutism.png]] Popular Movement of the Revolution
 * [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Brazilian Democratic Movement
 * [[File:Cball-Ecuador.png]] Ecuatorian Rodoldista Party

Media

 * [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] RT [[File:RT.png]]
 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Televisa

Articles

 * On kleptocracy
 * The Rise of Kleptocracy: Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations
 * The Origins of Modern Kleptocracy
 * Global Kleptocracy
 * This Is How Kleptocracies Work

Gallery
Kleptokracja