This chapter looks at young men’s narratives of corruption in interior Tunisia. Using an ethnographically driven method, the chapter tries to capture the issues confronting youth in the margins. The chapter lays out the way that narratives about corruption, which had previously been hidden or less overtly expressed, begin to inform the quotidian understanding of state, citizenship, and the democratic transition. It argues that corruption is understood as informal and threatening and that democratisation is seen as increasing this threatening informality of corruption. The chapter shows how through narratives of corruption the state is understood in essentially negative terms, as an “empty state” that is reduced to pure coercion. At the same time, by naming and discussing corruption the young seek to articulate other ways of seeing the state and being citizens. To call the state corrupt is to hold it to account and at the same time to articulate counter-visions; narratives of corruption thus signal expectations for something else, a hope of a better state of affairs.