Yep. Their conscript system shows why a kleptocracy is bad at war. It exists to collect bribes. Every recruiter accepts a fee to code someone as ineligible. Those fees gets passed up the ranks and pay for the grand dachas of each general.
For the military you are left with the dregs that are either too poor or too dumb to figure out the system.
Sounds like the Royal Navy conscript system and the Army that fought Napoleon under Wellington.