With opposition parties still in the early stages of being a political force and the government's penchant for unusual laws such as the restriction on the sales of chewing gum for cleanliness purposes, Singapore gained the reputation of being a nanny state, where the government is overprotective of its people. Nevertheless, it is also widely thought of as having a clean and transparent government, with a level of corruption among the lowest in the world. In Transparency International's 2020 list, it was ranked as the world's third least corrupt country and the most transparent country in Asia. The country also ranks highly in statistics relating to quality of life, particularly education, GDP per capita, housing, human capital, healthcare, life expectancy and safety. In the most recent Human Development Index statistic composite, Singapore was placed as the highest ranked sovereign country in Asia.