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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8553665" data-attributes="member: 6779310">A rough estimate of organized crime in the US is about 850k in youth gangs. That includes the 3 in 5 who are adults.Assuming another 150k in other organized crimes is probable... putting the ratio about 1 per 350 or so. BUT...that's with the current 1.3% farmers.  90% of pre-19th century were farmers... a number stable at least as far back as the Domesday census of England.So, since most of those gangs are urban, and 5/6 of the US are urban... ... that ups the ratio to about 1 per 300 urban dwellers.This should vary by culture - the more authoritarian, the more organized crime. Peak rates run to aboput 1 in 50; above that, the parasitic effect is too strong and everyone starves. Minimum rates should be about 1/10, but figures on that are harder to figure.So, from 1 per 3000 in an absolute democracy with a culture of honesty and fair enforcement of law, to about 1 in 100 for autocratic despotic cultures with no cultural traditions of honesty....Of course, there's also the D&D solution in 3.X    DMG...1d8+6 for each of two "trees" - with 2x as many at half the level in each.So a tree with a roll of 1 on the d8 is 1×7th, 2×4th, 4×2nd, 8×1stA tree with an 8 on it is 1×14th, 2×7th, 4×4th, 8×2nd, 16×1st</blockquote>