The Melting Pot

[12yearplan]

Your comment on corruption got me curious and from that article I imagined Kristi functioning in and amongst this "old boys club" initially (along with the main storyline) and got lost reading all these links this mornin' (I'm not proud ;)
 Like many rural, sparsely populated states, South Dakota has minimal mechanisms of oversight. In the wake of several local corruption scandals, voters passed a ballot initiative in 2016 that would establish an ethics commission, create a public campaign finance system, and tighten ethics rules. If the new law clears legal hurdles, it could put the Mount Rushmore State at the vanguard of grassroots ethics reform. Last updated June 2018. 
https://web.law.columbia.edu/capi-map#capi-mapinfo
And here SD near least corrupt comparatively speaking
https://bestlifeonline.com/most-corrupt-state-america/
https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5e4d03f3f133f4000629352f/960x0.jpg?fit=scale
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/02/19/the-most-corrupt-states-in-america-infographic/?sh=211144222101
https://bgr.com/lifestyle/most-corrupt-states-list/
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/usa
Bit old but can tell the author is fair minded:
https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/julie-delcour-oklahoma-11th-most-corrupt-state-in-u-s-really/article_6eea5723-d504-5263-8650-8b08f4243cc9.html
As I understand it my "state" in Cda has been ranked #1 most corrupt for a long time - Quebec,.. let's see:

https://www.tvo.org/transcript/2661149/how-corrupt-is-canadian-democracy
https://transparencycanada.ca/news/canada-continues-to-sit-out-of-the-top-of-the-corruption-perceptions-index
https://transparencycanada.ca/news
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-sam-coopers-expose-of-corruption-in-canada-tops-bestseller-list
The province of. Quebec is the only sub-federal jurisdiction in Canada with its own anti-corruption legislation. Its Anti-Corruption Act came.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Canada

I don't think this is easy!. Please don't ask difficult questions again ;)!.