5 Most Bureaucratic Countries in the World

2. Russian Federation

Percentage of public sector employment as a share of total employment: 45%

Russia is the world’s and Europe’s largest country in terms of area. It also has copious amounts of gas reserves, and Russian companies are among the biggest gas providers in the world. Russia is the direct successor of the Soviet Union, the world’s first purely communist nation. Naturally, it inherits the bureaucratic legacy of socialism which places control of state resources and production with a team of officials who are appointed rather than elected. The bureaucracy is also a key reason behind the Soviet Union’s fall, as it encouraged production simply for the sake of meeting targets rather than innovative products and business processes.,