Cultural Lessons from Parking Violations

Diplomats that attend the UN in New York had, in the past,complete diplomatic immunity. In the book I am listening to written by David Brooks, he talks about a study that reviewed all parking and traffic violations of diplomats from different countries. Those countries who rated poorly on the transparency and corruption index stacked up enormous parking and traffic violations (including Kuwait and many Middle Eastern countries), where as countries rated very favorably regarding their transparency and corruption had very few, if any, parking and traffic violations. Apparently this was irrespective of the particular position or social and economic status of the diplomat. So what does this tell us about culture, if anything?