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* [[Artemis Fowl]]'s multimillion dollar criminal organization consists pretty much entirely of himself and his [[Battle Butler]]. Apparently, Artemis occupies himself primarily with grand theft and fraud, having greatly scaled down the family's usual enterprises in order to ensure that he can personally tend to all of his crimes (although he still makes use of his butler's and family's vast network of contacts). He also heavily invests his criminal earnings.
* The ''[[Land of Oz|Oz]]'' series from [[L. Frank Baum]] uses this multiple times in regard to armies. In ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'', it's revealed that the entire Royal Army of Oz is ''one person'', The Man With the Green Whiskers who first appeared in the original book. By ''Ozma of Oz'', the Tin Woodman has expanded it to... 30 people, 3 of which are only mentioned.
** Another example in the Oz books was the army formed by Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo in ''Tick-Toc of Oz'', which had only 17 members (16 of which were officers) which made sense, seeing as Oogaboo itself had a population of only 50.
* [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]: For a [[NGO Superpower]] capable of helping the Cretan Insurrection, destroy [[The Empire]] ships and with his own [[Con Lang|language]], the Nautilus crew is small: We only see Captain Nemo, his [[Number Two]], and two unfortunate crewmen that die in the novel. And because they have severed all contact with inhabited continents, there will be no more crewmen. Aronnax made a calculation about less than sixty people:
{{quote|''"... Which is tantamount to saying that the air contained in the Nautilus would be exactly enough for 625 men over twenty–four hours."''
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