Factions

= The Underworld =

The Deacon Street Triads

 * Chinese Street Gang
 * No delusions of grandeur
 * Dog fighting, drug pushing, home invasions, etc.
 * Mainly just street level crime
 * Willing to act as muscle for other gangs
 * No real loyalties, just want to commit crime & make money

The Ito Family (Yakuza)

 * Once powerful, currently on the slide
 * Gentrification of their neighborhood leads to infighting

Sons of Satan Motorcycle Club

 * Petty criminals and gun runners
 * Korean War and fresh Vietnam vets with a drug hookup
 * Golden Triangle heroin smuggling & meth lab out in the desert
 * Kind of sort of competing with the Whitehall Organization and the Vargas Cartel
 * Less so with the Whitehall's but the Vargas want to consolidate
 * Selling to different customer bases

The Vargas Cartel

 * Mexican drug cartel being locally run by ??? Mendoza
 * Gun runners, drug smugglers, human traffickers
 * Newcomers to the scene but insanely powerful
 * Almost as if they have big scary backers
 * Currently being backed by the CIA
 * If the CIA backs them in the US, the Vargas Cartel will back them in Central America

The Birds

 * Leader is the daughter of Mr. Byrne
 * Wanted to strike it out on her own. Managed to do so.
 * They're not really talking, but can definitely have their relationship patched up.
 * Sanctuary District based street gang
 * Mostly LGBT
 * Pre-gentrification Hispanic gay-ngsters linking up with post-gentrification lesbians
 * Guardian Angels-type deal, but less nonviolent
 * Not outwardly violent, but willing to deal party drugs and commit low-level crimes

The Orso Family

 * Italian Mob, already done with the slide
 * Really just there to have their old rackets divvied up
 * FBI just finished up a years long investigation into them
 * A few were able to escape prosecution or managed to get acquitted
 * Mainly just spend their days in Vito's getting drunk and playing cards
 * Some people really want their secret dealings kept secret
 * Government officials, rich folk, etc.
 * Currently being courted by the CIA
 * You scratch my back; I scratch yours
 * Operation Gladio, but stateside
 * A little bit further than whatever their CHAOS analogue is

The Byrne Family

 * Irish Mob Family
 * Not really interested in being criminal, just doing what they've always done to get by
 * Doesn't control the docks, but has their ear to the ground
 * Will occasionally steal stuff to offload
 * Cars, phones, televisions, etc.

The Whitehall Organization

 * Black-American Drug Dealing Organization
 * Not really involved in many other rackets, just have a stranglehold on drugs in the black community
 * Based out of Huntsman's End
 * Have been based out of there since the 1910's
 * Gang has been going through a long period of motive decay
 * Originally started off as more of a Black Mafia-type deal
 * Protecting the interest of the neighborhood, but still being a little criminal
 * Started to have to do more criminal acts to keep up with the other factions
 * Stealing cars & fixing the lottery > Dealing light drugs > Dealing heavier drugs > Murder
 * Still trying to protect the neighborhood
 * Basketball games, charitable donations, community cookouts, etc.
 * Currently divided between three factions
 * Those that want to dissolve the gang
 * Those that want to continue the current program
 * Those that want to sell drugs purely for profit

=Politics=

= Radicals & Militants =

The Watchtower

 * Far left radical group
 * College group that got a little out of hand

The Black Cobra Party

 * Black Panther-type deal

The Black Emancipation Army

 * Black Liberation Army-type deal

Entropa Liberation Forces

 * Symbionese Liberation Party-type deal
 * Former engineering student driven mad
 * MKUltra victim
 * Driven mad by the concept of entropy
 * Trying to bring about the chaos sooner
 * Not really politically driven but lumped in with the rest of them
 * Just want to cause chaos
 * Being manipulated by a CHAOS plant

Delta 45

 * Far-Right Anti-Communists

The Infantry of Christ

 * Far-Right Christian group
 * Abortion bombings and whatnot

The Order, the Apostles, and the Will of the Lord

 * Christian survivalists living out in the desert

= Cults & New Age Religious Movements =

The Freeman Family

 * Manson Family

The Healers of Croxozen

 * People in touch with their wizard powers

Nirvana's Embrace

 * UFO cult

Willow of the Hill, Church of the Grove

 * Seemingly normal group of people
 * Maybe a little Jesus-y
 * Doomsday Cult

The Order of Aphrodite

 * All woman group