Japan had a widespread pension fraud scandal that made headlines in 2010: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-pacific-11258071" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-pacific-11258071</a><p>From my understanding, the government is extremely inefficient technologically (it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if most population records are still in paper form and faxed between  government departments)