Democracy Matrix doesn’t disregard “legal corruption”:

Then the index is just plain biased.

I live in Germany and I can see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears that the power balance is heavily tilted in favor of corporations. You may be one of those who either benefit from the system, or tell themselves a fairy tale of "things are not that bad". I don't need to wait for people starving on the streets to know that this is the direction our system is going at the moment.

Germany is fucked up, but since we're still exploiting the third world and our economy is booming, even those who get cheated out of their livelihoods do not starve yet (for the most part).

But there are already some people in a really bad place here because the government isn't doing the very minimum of it's fucking duty to protect the weakest, and instead giving tax cuts to the richest and the corporations.

So don't give me bullshit about Germany being a "good democracy". The only thing poor people still have left here, is that they are still allowed to call out those stealing their livelihood without being imprisoned for it. Not that it would do them any good.