Organised crime in Kiravia

The Kiravian Mafia, also known as the Coscivian Mafia or the Kiravian mob is a highly-organised transnational operating in a number of Ixnayan nations.

History
The origins of the Kiravian Mafia can be traced to the Kiravian economic downturn of the 21170s. In addition to the better-publicised large-scale emigration of highly-educated scientific, medical, and management workers to other countries (the cuaxyrvrætor), there was also an egress of blue-collar workers displaced by failed Kirosocialist industrial policies and centralisation efforts that impoverished entire regions of Great Kirav and the peripheral colonies. In the countries where they settled, these working-class emigrants often found themselves in precarious economic circumstances and an environment of strong mutual distrust between themselves and the native society. Both of these forces incentivised overseas Kiravians to supplement their income through extralegal means and to form secret societies for mutual protection where the legitimate authorities could not be relied upon. These societies, called cadastræ ("cadres"), were initially organised locally, but over time federated into one another to build larger criminal networks and gain access to more markets.

With the end of Kirosocialism, the regeneration of the Kiravian economy, and its reöpening to foreign contact, the criminal cadres of the diaspora found themselves perfectly poised to take advantage of the burgeoning trade in illegal and extralegal goods between Kiravia and the wider world. Establishing business relationships with established criminal firms back home, the Kiravian Mafia became the transnational transport, distribution, and enforcement arm of the Kiravian criminal sector, trafficking the country's black market imports and exports and ensuring the timely payment of debts by foreign partners.

Customs and Ethos
Like other diasporic criminal organisations, the Kiravian Mafia holds to a strict code of behaviour and places a great deal of emphasis on its ethnic identity. Traditionally, full membership is restricted to Coscivian males of unmixed ancestry, though some cadres are known to admit initiates of Kiravian Celtic, Fiannrian, or Tryhstian background. Mafiosi born in the Federacy or into the first-generation of the diaspora enjoy high prestige within the organisation, but recruits of more distant Kiravian origin or from a local Coscivian ethnic group (e.g. in Rumelistan) are readily accepted for membership. Coscivians of partial Slakonian, Hekuvian, etc. ancestry, as well as full-blooded natives, are accepted as associates.

Criminal Activities
The Kiravian Mafia engage in a wide range of criminal activities. Traditionally, their most lucrative enterprises were and, leveraging connexions in Great Kirav, where alcohol and tobacco products are manufactured cheaply and with minimal regulation, to provide both goods at competitive prices on the black market. However, today the average cadre's income draws more heavily from racketeering, extortion, and the illegal management of construction projects and agribusinesses. In the course of their extortion activities, the Kiravian mob have gained a reputation for car bombings, arson, and industrial sabotage, to the point where legitimate businesses have been known to contract Kiravian criminal elements to sabotage their competitors.

The Kiravian mob is also known for its specialisation in automobile-related crimes, particularly car theft, the operation of, and illegal trade in vehicles, parts, and registration plates, often across national borders. The growing popularity of high-value navigation, entertainment, and other computerised systems in cars has been a boon to the Kiravian mob, who are adept at extracting these accessories for sale.

Drugs are an increasingly important activity for the Mafia which participates in both the export (Kiravian-manufacutred ketamines, kalir, and mushrooms to be sold abroad) and import (various and sundry Hekuvian experimental drugs to be sold in Kiravia) sides of the business. They face fierce competition from other criminal groups for control of the lucrative cocaïne trade centred in Argévia. Kiravian mob cadres control the main transit routes for psychotropic moss grown in the United Kindreds, which they traffic to Heku and Paulastra for sale.

Investigations by various Kiravian law enforcement agencies have placed the Kiravian Mafia at the forefront of the international organ trade, and have identified links between the Kiravian Mafia and prominent Kiravian business and political figures in these dealings, including a Governor of Devalōmica, several Niyasca state officials, and the Saar-Silverda metropolitan police chief. The Mafia are responsible for procuring and transporting organs obtained from underdeveloped and war-torn corners of Ixnay, such as Punth and Kommenori and delivering them to wealthy buyers in Kiravia, Paulastra, Urcea, and Heku.

Relationship to Mainland Syndicates
The diasporic Kiravian Mafia has a complex symbiotic relationship with the various organised crime groups active in Great Kirav and the Colonies. Most overseas Mafia cadre are affiliated with one or more Great Kirav-based syndicates. Generally speaking, the Mafia cadre is responsible for the more "tangible" criminal activities (theft, smuggling, intimidation, violence) while the metropolitan syndicate is responsible for more "white-collar" (fraud, political corruption, forgery, cybercrime) and capital-intensive (drug manufacturing, money-laundering) aspects of the business, with each arm of the criminal network enabling the other to do its job.