Philatelists

Name

The Philatelic Society, aka Philatelists (Stamp Collectors)

Role

Worldwide equivalent of banks, post office, telegraph, notary, anything requiring for buying and using stamps.

Effectively maintain free press by ensuring periodicals can be printed and received anywhere.

Leadership

'The Committee' senior members rotated through for ten years of each century, mostly formality to approve what has been decided by consensus already. Secret to prevent meddling influence.

Subcommittees act as departments to take care of various specializations.

Membership

Only induct one full membership once every century, very secret process to avoid politics/gaming the system. Humans and other short lived mortals make arrangements to pass membership to heir, with the Society's permission. Depth of intel available based on standing.

Attributes

Sovereignty: 4
Source: selective recruiting, focused purpose, tight knit leadership

Explanation: Total control of their domains, don’t meddle in others. Internal organization honed over centuries by the best leaders of the realm. Tolerates no external meddling, which is why the current leaders are unknown to everyone but the established deciding tier members.

Wealth: 6
Source: Treasuries, trust, providing utility (Documentation)
Requires: Might guards for treasuries and collections (scale: ln)
Explanation: Immense treasuries of gold, but they consider their true wealth their collections of stamps. Wealth transactions of any measure go through them. They provide utility.

Might: 3
Source: guard, alliance
Requires: wealth, labor, influence (scale: n)

Influence: 5
Source: connections, alliance
Requires: utility (scale: 1)
Explanation: They have seemingly unlimited sources of information, which are not resisted because they are never misused. They seek to ensure the stability of stamp collecting only. They publish reports quarterly about current affairs, pretty businesslike.

#ToDo intel/

Sentiment

Towards