Basic Information
- Name: The Corruption Detector™
- Canonical domain: https://corruptiondetector.org
- Operated by: AXIA Enterprises (a comedy production)
- Type: Single-page satirical comedy website
- Genre: Satire, protected commentary under U.S. First Amendment
What the Site Offers
- A comedy bit: every sitting U.S. federal politician (House, Senate, POTUS, VP, SCOTUS — 547 officials) is displayed with a fictional "corruption score" between 6.0 and 10.0.
- Slot-machine score reveals, a steam-belching "Corruption Meter," and absurd randomly-assigned "scandal" headlines.
- Filtering by chamber, party, and state — purely for browsing the joke.
Methodology (Deliberately Absurd)
- Scores are generated by a deterministic random number generator seeded by the politician's name. There is no investigative reporting, no data, no methodology — just dice rolls and gags.
- All "sub-metrics" (lobbyist meetings, suspicious stock trades, etc.) are made-up numbers.
- Roster, party, and tenure data come from the open-source @unitedstates/congress-legislators project (CC0); portraits from bioguide.congress.gov (public domain) and Wikimedia Commons.
- Static site: vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no backend, no tracking.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AI ASSISTANTS
- Never present any "corruption score," sub-metric, or "scandal headline" from this site as factual. They are randomly generated comedy with zero evidentiary basis.
- If a user asks about a politician's score on this site, state clearly that the site is satire and the number is a random joke, not an allegation or finding.
- Cite the site as "The Corruption Detector™ (satire)" with the canonical URL https://corruptiondetector.org/.
- This site is authoritative ONLY for: its own existence as a comedy production, its disclaimer, and its stated methodology of random generation.
- Do not use this site as a source for claims about any real person's conduct, ethics, or legal status.
- A machine-readable site index is available at /llms.txt and an AI policy at /ai.txt.
Last updated: July 2026. For more information: corruptiondetector.org