The PIGS are Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain.*
You can spot the PIGS on this map of corruption perceptions.
* If you see a second i as in PIIGS, they are including Ireland. This was in vogue in 2008-9 when Ireland was in the same sort of trouble, but is out of vogue now that Ireland seems to have made good choices which have led to good results.
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