And the tax regime encourages it.
At one point the regime encouraged him to kill himself.
Certainly, the Napoleonic regime encouraged a return to the Classical mode.
No doubt the regime encouraged many of the loud Aziz supporters to fill the streets of Nouakchott on Saturday.
Thailand's previous fixed exchange-rate regime encouraged borrowing in dollars at much lower interest rates than borrowing baht.
But Germany led numerous countries in arguing that the regime encouraged artificial shifting of profits to avoid tax elsewhere.
In its eagerness to modernize, the Ben Ali regime encouraged widespread access to satellite television and the Internet.
Whereas Mr Assad's regime encouraged the flow of jihadists into Iraq to kill Americans after the invasion in 2003, it has generally stamped on extremists.
The existing police regulatory regime encourages large swaths of American society to see themselves as existing within the law's aegis but outside its protection.
The problem is that such a regime could easily lead to a conservative management regime encouraging the use of existing methods and tools, as new activities and novel solutions and arrangements necessarily mean increased uncertainties.
That forgiving regime encouraged entrepreneurs (in Silicon Valley a bankruptcy is like a duelling scar in a Prussian officers' mess) but also allowed too many zombie companies to survive (look at the airlines).
