[Carrok]

Is this a serious question?

human trafficking? yup. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to...

prostitution? yup. https://www.awakenjustice.org/is-prostitution-a-choice

drug trafficking? yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

gambling? yup. https://www.powerball.com/

racketeering? yup. https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/

[lIl-IIIl]

That was a serious question, thank you.

I think of mafia as providing services that a government/legitimate private entities cannot provide.

Human trafficking - yup, I should have thought of that. In the counties listed in the link the governments does serve that mafia function. I was US centric in my thinking.

Prostitution - no. It can be legal, but the government does not engage in it.

Drug trafficking - I am sure some governments do it. I wouldn't put US in that list. Both the government investigations and the newspaper investigations found the allegations unsupported, according to the given link. I would say it could happen incidentally but organized crime does not need to worry about the government as a competitor in this space.

Gambling - the lottery is not illegal gambling. But you can argue that is tautologically true.

Racketeering - I don't see where in that link it says that the government engages in racketeering. Rico is a law that makes prosecuting racketeering easier.