Oh dear - I can see where this is going... somebody will add United States, somebody else will remove it again, repeat until somebody gets tired of that and gives up on having a list... :-) - Khendon 09:10 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
- bing* - Khendon 10:52 Mar 16, 2003 (UTC)
A couple of notes:
1- I fully agree with the comment of Khendon above, that on a list of so-called "kleptocratic" governments, there is really no meaningful way of determinining which one is and which one isn't a kleptocracy. It would be highly subjective, and in my opinion even with most forgiving standards, the list would by significantly longer than the one offered in the article.
2- The word "kleptocracy", even though philologically speaking, is sound and legitimate, does not appear in any of my English language dictionaries -- with either spelling (i.e., kleptocracy or cleptocracy) ... nor can I find it in my 235,000+ English Wordlist file in my Unix system. Are we inventing words here in Wikipedia or what? --Keyvan