The Roman scholar, Tacitus, wrote: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” What is the divine perspective of this statement?

This is an example of great insight and divine wisdom as well: "The need for law is a function of separation from divine alignment." Beings in the light need no legal system to enforce balancing their existence—that is done automatically through the Law of Karma that will bring an automatic consequence for any misstep and quickly. So people know well the limits allowable for their conduct and any oversight or neglect will trigger a quick reminder, so there is no need for police, judges, or juries as an attempt to reeducate people about the error of their ways and try to punish them into conforming to the rules of society. In an ideal environment, everyone learns the rules quickly and will follow them on their own, and any deviations will be quite minor and self-correcting. The problems that have developed for humanity have resulted from the challenges of living in the galaxy where free will and free agency are the arrangement. This greater latitude has allowed the growing corruption initiated by the fallen angelics and this has led to the state of disarray in human society you suffer at present. So the plethora of laws and the profusion of legal constraints through government edicts of all kinds emanating from the leadership are all a function of the unpredictable and irregular behavior of the citizenry when left on their own without a moral compass being shown to them as a major aspect of their education and a way to encourage adhering to divine principles. If these are not taught, how are people to know what is the best path? This is the fault of the current environment with separation of church and state. So in the absence of a universally understood and accepted and practiced morality, one needs an ever-growing set of laws to provide a comparable framework of constraints on behavior that recognizes every potential contingency. That is why this is such a true statement: "Without a desire to be in divine alignment the tremendous creativity and ingenuity of the divine human can become corrupted, and in service to the ego will find no end of ways to skirt around rules and regulations and ways to manipulate the system looking for loopholes and creating exceptions that will lead to another layer of regulations and legal constraints to rein in the more sophisticated misconduct that is causing problems." The end result is the creation of a state of imprisonment for all. People may be living in a city that is not behind imprisoning walls with guard towers, but they will nonetheless be constrained by the suffocating weight of laws and jurisprudence that will be heavily constraining them and narrowing their options for true freedom. This is not to mention the many ways that laws can be used to exert power and control over others by unsavory practices in governance where political figures will use the legal system to target their enemies, and various factions will use the law to target those with opposing views and punish them selectively. So there are many, many opportunities for things to be overdone and to erode individual freedom as a consequence.