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'''Organised crime in Kiravia''' (Kiravic: ''Iskorvibalv Kiraviē'') is a fairly pervasive phenomenon and has been a perpetual challenge for [[Law enforcement in Kiravia|law enforcement]] throughout the modern era. | '''Organised crime in Kiravia''' (Kiravic: ''Iskorvibalv Kiraviē'') is a fairly pervasive phenomenon and has been a perpetual challenge for [[Law enforcement in Kiravia|law enforcement]] throughout the modern era. | ||
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The vast majority of criminal organisations in Kiravia have an ethnic or caste basis. | The vast majority of criminal organisations in Kiravia have an ethnic or caste basis. | ||
==Major Ethnic Crime Families== | ==Major Ethnic Crime Families== | ||
The most powerful and institutionalised actors in Kiravian organised crime are the ethnic crime families. These groups sit at the apex of the criminal underworld in any given city, undertaking the most sophisticated and diversified criminal activities, accumulating the most wealth and political influence, and enjoying supremacy over other forms of criminal organisations, with which they have a complex web of interrelationships. The crime families are hierarchical and disciplined organisations with a high degree of intergenerational continuity. They have well-developed financial operations and money-laundering schemes, and are increasingly involved in white-collar crime and often have relationships with legitimate businesses. | The most powerful and institutionalised actors in Kiravian organised crime are the ethnic crime families. These groups sit at the apex of the criminal underworld in any given city, undertaking the most sophisticated and diversified criminal activities, accumulating the most wealth and political influence, and enjoying supremacy over other forms of criminal organisations, with which they have a complex web of interrelationships. The crime families are hierarchical and disciplined organisations with a high degree of intergenerational continuity. They have well-developed financial operations and money-laundering schemes, and are increasingly involved in white-collar crime and often have relationships with legitimate businesses. | ||
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===Nightworkers, Gravediggers, and other Backward Kir=== | |||
The largest and best-known organised criminal groups in Kiravia originate among the lower castes of the [[Kir people]], the ''[[harsitem]]'' and the similarly positioned ''[[yakavem]]'' or "village menial" castes. During the industrial era, many people from lower-caste backgrounds fled the rigid social structures of rural Kirav to seek better lives in the cities, but found themselves still at the bottom of the economic ladder and often turned to criminal enterprise after being shut out of legitimate opportunities for advancement. | |||
Backward Kir crime families are associated with either of two "lineages", Nightworkers (''Fêraventár'') and Gravediggers (''Aigūtumnár''), with roots in the criminal underworld of the late 19th century AD. The term "nightworker" began as an oblique way to refer to any professional criminal, whether part of an organised faction or not. In addition to the obvious denotation of someone who works under the cover of darkness, the word is also suggestive of the nocturnal sanitation-related and other menial jobs traditionally assigned to the lowest castes, which many nightworkers continued to claim as their official occupation. In the old days, the division of labour between the Nightworkers and Gravediggers was such that Nightworkers carried out the riskier, more 'kinetic' tasks of the criminal enterprise - murders, robberies, intimidation, collections, etc. - while Gravediggers were responsible for support activities, such as disposing of bodies (hence the name), moving contraband, minding hookers, and the like. The Nightworkers were the senior party in this partnership, making all executive decisions and keeping the lion's share of the ill-gotten proceeds. Over time, as the Kirish mob infrastructure consolidated from independent cliques to larger, more hierarchical families with more sophisticated operations, the division of labour between Nightworkers and Gravediggers became blurred yet the supremacy of the Nightworkers remained until the late [DECADE] Spring of Lead when Gravedigger crews in [[Ilminsar]] rose up to usurp the Nightworkers, a bloody ''tournant des tables'' that repeated in several other Lake Belt cities and Valēka with varying degrees of success, and ultimately effected a nationwide schism between the Gravediggers and Nightworkers. Today Nightworker and Gravedigger families are more or less interchangeable in terms of operations, but the animus between the two lineages remains. | |||
A high frequency of infighting - not only between Nightworkers and Gravediggers, but among individual families of the same lineage - contributed to the decline of the Kir mob in most major cities besides Escarda. However, Nightworkers and Gravediggers remain the preëminent criminal organisations in the smaller cities of the Kiravic-speaking heartland, and have a notable presence in [[Saar-Silverda]]. They have a more robust overseas presence, particularly in [[South Crona]], than do the other ethnic groups. | |||
{{wp|Illegal dumping}} was traditionally the mainstay of the Nightworkers and Gravediggers, and the ecological and public health consequences of this activity remain a major concern for local authorities. | |||
====Lone Diggers==== | |||
The Lone Diggers are a group of twelve or so crime families operating mainly in the Kiravian Interior. Althou | |||
===Paisonic Mob=== | ===Paisonic Mob=== | ||
Ethnically Paisonic crime families are the second-largest, but perhaps most powerful organised criminal element in Kiravia. | Ethnically Paisonic crime families are the second-largest, but perhaps most powerful organised criminal element in Kiravia. | ||
Paisonic crime syndicates sit alone at the top of the food chain in Valēka and most other cities in | Paisonic crime syndicates sit alone at the top of the food chain in Valēka and most other cities in Kaviska and Niyaska, Primóra, and Vondor. They compete for dominance with the Nightworkers in Escarda and other industrial cities of the interior. | ||
===Ĥeiran Mob=== | ===Ĥeiran Mob=== | ||
[[Ĥeiran Coscivians]] were the face of modern, truly organised crime in Kiravia from its beginnings with the rise of industrial urbanism until the [DECADE]s, when fierce competition from Paisonic Mob and other groups wore down their dominance in most places. Ĥeiran crime families are still preëminent in Northeastern cities like [[ | [[Ĥeiran Coscivians]] were the face of modern, truly organised crime in Kiravia from its beginnings with the rise of industrial urbanism until the [DECADE]s, when fierce competition from Paisonic Mob and other groups wore down their dominance in most places. Ĥeiran crime families are still preëminent in Northeastern cities like [[Bérasar]] and [[Livern]], and some smaller cities such as Glengarry-Glenross and [[Cities of Kiravia#Dēvlinsar|Dēvlinsar]]. Historically, most Ĥeiran mobsters have been Æran Coscivians, with some members from other Ĥeiran subgroups or from Celtic-Kiravian backgrounds. In Valēka and Eriadun, Ĥeiran and Gaelic organised crime have more or less merged, whereas in Bérasar families with Ĥeiran Coscivian and Kiravian Gaelic members face competition from newer and more violent criminal groups organised among recent Gaelic immigrants. | ||
===Urom crime families=== | |||
Crime is a major concern in many [[Urom]] communities. Lower-level organised crime is pervasive, with criminal groups engaging in the similar forms of illicit activity to rural organised crime elsewhere. In certain cities in [[Devahoma]] and the Southwest with large urbanised Urom populations, Urom crime families have formed on the same pattern as their ethnic Coscivian counterparts, with whom they compete for power and clout. | |||
===''Dağriostra''=== | |||
The major ethnic crime syndicates often have working relationships with government officials and political parties, especially on the provincial and local levels, and become involved in the political process in various ways, from campaign contributions to voter intimidation to assassinations. Collusion between public officials and organised crime, called ''dağriostra'' ("blighted politics"), is a persistent and widespread form of [[corruption in Kiravia]], and consequently a high-profile political issue. | |||
Kiravian officials have been known to engage the services of crime families to carry out government business by extralegal means. One notable recent example came to national attention in 2010 AD, when countyship officials in [[Kaviska]] were alleged to have hired jackhammer crews of mobsters and workers from mob-controlled labour unions to add extra potholes to tertiary highways in order to extract more funds from the State Highway Authority. There are numerous examples of the mob being called in to "apply pressure" on public-sector unions during strikes and contract renegotiations. | |||
==Street Gangs== | ==Street Gangs== | ||