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Originally Posted by johndallman
You're basically on a scale from "National intelligence agency" of small-to-medium nations, to "local criminal gang". Interpolating on that line may be useful.
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That's basically what I'm looking for. There's a question how much such a group achieve 'quietly'. There's also a question of how group size correlates with the number of spies infiltrating said group on the behalf of other groups (including other conspirators, generic commercial guilds/corporations and national government agencies).
Say I have a group of 1000 people with group assets equal to 100 × Starting Wealth and a budget of 50 Average Incomes. Just how much can they achieve? Manipulate the administration of a 1-million-pop city? Totally control it? Put a puppet president in charge of a nation (pop 10-20M)?
Generally, I'm looking for ways to consistently describe the power, influence, security etc. of such groups.