The Cartel

The Cartel

The Cartel is a synonym for a longstanding agreement of the four major crime families on Sin 4 ( The Cartel reaches far beyond Sin 4 and includes other planets and Pirate agreements.) The Cartel regulates the business and the boundaries of the four Families.



A cartel is a formal agreement among competing firms. It is a formal organization where there is a small number of sellers and usually involve homogeneous products. Cartel members may agree on such matters as price fixing, total industry output, market shares, allocation of customers, allocation of territories, bid rigging, establishment of common sales agencies, and the division of profits or combination of these. The aim of such collusion (also called the cartel agreement) is to increase individual members' profits by reducing competition.