How did the United States rank in corruption for 2009?

• The top ten least corrupt are the Nordic countries, plus New Zealand (#1), Canada, and Australia.  (Netherlands isn't exactly Nordic, but it comes in at #6.  Singapore (#3) is perceived as the least corrupt country in all of Asia.
  
• The US (home to Delaware) and UK just barely make the top twenty.
• America is trying to win wars in two of the five most corrupt countries in the world. (Iraq and Afghanistan's rank prior to America's invasions could not have been any lower.)

More about the recent Transparency International survey here.