Because every character in this case -- persons and firms -- has itself 10's of thousands of contacts, the possible stories you can create by virtue of who each

Because every character in this case -- persons and firms -- has itself 10's of thousands of contacts, the possible stories you can create by virtue of who each knows is exponential. Awesomely, this kind of conspiracy-mongering gets even easier when we have actual, explicit social networks online, rather than implicit ones.