inspekce (inspection).

Rather than letting the free market or even the courts sort out problems of quality and discipline, Czechs prefer to rely on state-mandated inspections. There are thus inspectors who make the rounds of pubs – making sure that a half-liter beer measures exactly that and the 200 gram pork chop is no more or less than its listed weight – and others who check that employees who claim to be home sick have not taken a step out of their home. All this effort, however, makes little dent into widespread corruption..