Originally Posted by
dancrilis
This is to an extent my view - it is difficult for such a system to be corrupt at the top, nobody was bribing the Emperor because there was nothing to bribe him with making him effectively incorruptable, people lower down could be corrupted 'help us and we will help you take out your boss and you can move up' but the leadership of the Empire were largely beyond reproach when it came to corrupt behaviour as the system didn't really allow anything to corrupt them with (Vader was a traitor in wanting to overthrow Palpatine but he wasn't really corrupt about it he wasn't offering governership for politicians backing him or anything like that, he wasn't offering or accepting bribes or anything like that).