Minneapolis/St. Paul

The Yakuza:

The Japanese mafia has not taken a large foothold on the organized crime rings in Minnesota. The large metahuman population is one of many reasons the Yaks have not bothered with Minnesota, as is the constant military presence. Their slight grip in the criminal underworld can be felt mainly in the BTL market and the black market. All this may be true, but there are rumors of a new campaign to increase presence.

The Mafia:

The Mafia are much more prevalent in the Twin Cties than the Yaks, but ares still not the controlling organized crime power, and for many of the same reasons. The Mafia do enjoy the numbers games, control most of the illegal gambling in the cities, and make much on the prostitution rings. The Mafia and the Yaks have had decidedly bad interction in the Twin Cities, and tend to stay away from each other. There are occasionally some mob wars between the two groups, but in the last few years, this has dropped to a few petty scirmishes. Lone Star is aware of all of this, but seems to ignore some farily obvious legal violations. There are strong rumors that the Yaks are planning to increase their own hold on crime by attempting to run the Mafia out of town.

The Triads:

The Hong Kong based Triads are trying desperately to get a foothold in Twin City crime, but rather unsuccessfully. They have been able to gain the largest piece of the pornography pie, but lack the resources to push their way into any of the other markets. There are rumors that some Chinese backed corps are trying to give them the resources to gain their fair share of organized crime. It is likely that if The Triads attempt to take over any of the underworld crime, thier attempt will fail miserably, the Yaks, Mafia, and Seoulpa Rings control too much of the power to allow another player.

Surprisingly, the Seoulpa Rings control a much larger piece of the organized crime pie than in any other cities. The Seoulpa Rings are involved in almost every indevor, but truely enjoy the illegal drug trade. The Twin Cities have become the distribution point for most of the western UCAS and the amount of money in drugs is stagering. The Seoulpa Rings have made an agreement with TCI (Twin Cities International Airport) security to get their smuggled goods through customs with little hastle. It is likely that new security procedures could dissolve this agreement though. The Seoulpa Rings have been having extensive disagreements with the Mafia lateley, as the Mafia is trying to infringe on much of their business. Even with these problems, it is unlikely the Seoulpa Rings will lose any large portion of The Twin Cities anytime soon.

The Twin Cities are threatenting to become to the city run by gangs. The entire area has not recovered fully from the '30's and as a result the gangs have not yet been removed from the cities. Minneapolis has fallen to such an extreme with the complete lack of organized control. Gangs are the government in the Free Zone. The rest of the cities are not nearly as bad, but in every corner of town, gangs abound. The Minneapolis Gangs are documented in a seperate file.

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