Just because your country legalizes its corruption and bribery does not make it "not corrupt". Your pirate ship being honest with its mode of operation, its objectives, and distribution of its loot does not negate its existence as an enterprise of plunder.

Consider: The wealth and living standard that western europe is sustained by is done through the exploitation of the developing world. Which means, as a bloc, those countries corrupt their own and their client states to accede to these exploitative relationships. What do you think ECOWAS and France are for if not for the exploitative relationship between France and its former colonies to maintain relationships of exploitation; what corruption do you think France makes their client states in ECWAS foster to undermine their own democratic processes in favor of the exploitation by France (and to a greater extent the entire Western world).