There are a few things that can be true or false about a location based on the rates, including political corruption. Right now in the United States, it's extremely easy to view the large amount of political corruption because of how many people can easily get away with murder and other crimes. Corrupt politicians are going to actively work at attempting to make it harder if not impossible for themselves to get in trouble for anything they have done wrong that they don't want to get caught for. This is why there is currently so much internet activism that revolves around the NSA and other corporations; because this gives the corrupt politicians a medium forum for using double standards against political opponents. This wasn't used for terrorism as much as it was used for destroying political opponents. Certain laws protect criminals when they are committing a crime. Many of these laws involve where and what can be watched, and when. If a murder happens on corporate property and the body gets thrown into the middle of the damn ocean on an oil rig, do you think anyone is going to find out what happened to you?
Today, more then ever, there is a huge amount of political influence on the internet because of the attempt by criminals, even going as dark as sex traffickers attempting to lobby for sex trafficking, trying to get away with crimes and turning our own tax money against us. There isn't even incentive to work in the modern world, as the money you gain isn't even worth enough anymore that you would be better off going off the grid, but, corporate lobbyist help make everything federal property, giving nobody the ability to leave the system they are forced to follow in order to do their own thing. You are like a bee in a beehive and they come to take your honey for themselves without themselves having to do any work. What do you do then? Break the law on a massive scale?
I'v said before that a nation is a living organism and as you've all seen from this election, the fact that Hillary not only almost won, but, that the television lied the entire time about the odds Trump had of winning, should make it obvious that the United States has cancer. The very system for gaining power federally is under attack and people are literally being assassinated and called suicides based on their political point of view. Event FBI agents end up being found dead or being murdered in public, in locations that have a homicide rate of 1 per decade. There are more people right now who are criminals and have the capability to get away with crime while being protected by the law, then there are people who will defend themselves from these criminals and political corruption, that will not end up getting murdered or incriminated for it. So what do you do? It's illegal for activist to tell people they should commit a crime to stop a criminal, so the odds are really stacked against you here. When you make a move, so do corporations with a lot of money who threaten entire economies.
Right now, jobs could be replaced from manual labor to full automation. If the CIA knows that China is using asymmetric warfare to lower the value of the dollar, then why haven't they used automation to pick the value back up and reduce foreign dependency? Why is China so brave about the South China sea and nuclear war? If we don't need China, then we don't need to use China. If it means war over slavery, then we need to go to war. The reason nothing is being done politically is because either China knows certain people have something to hide and are blackmailing them, or very corrupt politicians are afraid to lose the power they had via money.