Zombie Mafia

The Zombie Mafia functions out of several international power bases of organized crime, all of which are familiar to even the most casual reading; Russia, Italy, Eastern Europe, Latin America, etc.  But the Zombie Mafia represents this core unity that underlies the various ethnically-based mafia groups.  The Zombie Mafia has legions of cheap shock troopers to throw at targets, and they posses both the will and resources to make direct, dirty sneak attacks on enemies.
The Zombie Mafia is a scarey thing: undead creatures shoulder deep in the criminal underworld.  That means specialists in various criminal disciplines (car jacking, computer hacking, credit card fraud, art theft, you name it) as well as admistrators, fence men, shock troops, and executioners, all of which are out for hire.  And all of these resources are off the books.  No paper trail, off the grid, whatever you wanna call it.
There is a chain of command in the Zombie Mafia, starting at the top with the Boss.  The Boss directs activities in a certain region, usually a major city and its surrounding lands.  Underneath the Boss are Luitenants who either oversee smaller satelite-cities or who act as advisors, bodyguards and yes-men to the Boss himself.  Underneath these guys are Veteran Troops, highly-skilled mafia like professional hitmen, launderers, transporters, etc.  And finally there are the Shock Troops - basically, cheap labor.  They act as cannon fodder, usually they are handed a gun, a cell phone and told to just wait for orders.  Most do so, with the occasional bright spot being elevated to the Veteran (if he lives that long).
The Zombie Mafia occasionally suffers from intense intrenal conflict.  Someone messes with someone elses turf or somebody insults someone else and that person wants revenge.  Then Shock Troops battle eachother in what police call gang turf wars or hitmen kill Luitenants (and occasionall Bosses) important to the other side.  These wars tend to be brief, usually they are bitter rivalries that last for years, with actual open warfare only flaring up sporadically from time to time.
Strangel enough, the Zombie Mafia does have one unique positive attribute: instilling order.  The Zombie Mafia is not into anarchy and chaos, they know that to steal from the honest man, the honest man has to be able to hold down a job and actually make money.  You can only do that with a stable society.  So to a point, the Zombie Mafia actually works for society by bringing in new businesses when necessary and working to organize communities.
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