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The most corrupt nation state in Western Europe occupies only 120 acres of land
and has fewer than 1,000 residents. But its capacity for initiating criminal behaviour, and the global consequences of the financial and sexual scandals
in which it's entangled, are hugely out of proportion to its size.

ThatrCOs because, around the world, roughly a billion people traditionally regard
the staterCOs geriatric absolute monarch as GodrCOs representative on earth. They
may have been aware that, for centuries, a few bad apples in the administration
have betrayed the monarch's trust by embezzling money. But the notion that the whole state was slowly turning into a criminal enterprise would have struck them
as ridiculous, even sacrilegious.

Until now.

We're talking about Vatican City, of course.

Read more! https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-corruption-of-the-vatican/

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