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* The [[CIA]] is an example with regard to their case officers. While they are likely the largest single intelligence agency in the world, they have fewer case officers in the entire agency than the FBI has special agents for New York City alone.
** In this case this is largely because most of the CIA's personnel are analysts as opposed to case officers. The analysts aren't heavily shown in fiction largely because of the generally boring nature of their work.
* The State Police or the Highway Patrol throughout the United States were founded throughout the 1930s as a means of enforcing the law on a given state's highways and were normally assigned to specific sections of their state. What made them smaller than your conventional law enforcement agencies is that certain states such as Louisiana and Nevada initially had around 16 troopers (or three, plus the public official who commissioned them, in Nevada's case) appointed to carry out their duties and it was commonplace to assign one or two men to several counties.
* The Gang of Four, the small inner circle of the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution, that manipulated the events to their advantage.
* People tend to think of [[Steve Jackson Games]] (the makers of ''[[In Nomine]]'', ''[[Toon (game)|Toon]]'', ''[[GURPS]]'' and ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'') as a moderately powerful force in the gaming industry. Their total staff as of the end of 2013 - the year they shipped the massive re-release of ''OGRE'' - was 43, with most work being contracted with freelancers.
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