You're listening to the inquiry with Chloe Hadgemothayu.

It's 2002 in the small eastern European country of Georgia, and the capital Tablise there's a wedding taking place.

A young policeman's getting married, he's pretty new at the job. A year earlier he secured his post with the

traffic squad by paying the right people for thousands of dollars. And since then he's

had to pay each week just to keep his position.

His salary, $10 a month.

So how does that work?

Well, he's expected to make up his income through the daily bribes he extracts from

motorists on the city streets.

And on this special occasion his colleagues from the force are presenting him with a wedding gift,

three days on Tbilisi's busiest and so most lucrative highway.

This was Georgia in the world's most corrupt countries.

Last month the World Economic Forum published a report which spells out how damaging corruption can be.

It slows down economies, creates misery, and it's endemic in many countries around the world.

But what can you do about it? Well you can start as we have by looking at

Georgia because by the time that young Georgian policeman reached his 10th wedding

anniversary his country had changed. A lot.

This week we're going to tell Georgia's story because it answers our question, can a corrupt country get clean?

If you're a minister in a corrupt state, now's the time to start taking notes.

Part 1, corruptocracy. When you grow up in a society that is corrupt, you know, it affects absolutely everything from the beginning to the end.

We're going to start by laying out the challenges facing Georgia back in the early 2000s.

For a start, corruption had permeated the very infrastructure of the state, something

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