The most interesting point of the article is that it is illegal for the GCSB (New Zealand spy agency) to monitor New Zealanders.

Personally I feel that other nations should learn from this and implement similar policies.

It already is illegal for the CIA to monitor Americans on American soil.

Of course once you are used to breaking laws around the world, what is one more law?

Hang on, does that indicate that NZ is perceived to be the most corrupt country on the scale? Just what countries are included, or excluded for that matter?

The opposite: "A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 - 100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean." http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results