Brink crime family

The Brink crime family, also known as the Mistlân Mob and the Zuidvis Mob and formally known as the Doggerland Mob, is an organized crime family that has been active in Doggerland since the 1930s. It first started out as a Calvinist Dutch group of men, but now has members from other backgrounds. They are most active around the southern cities of Mistlân, Rotsibaai, Kensingston, Graki, Voostkreek, Toiburg, and Tynfirth. They are known for having carried out numerous murders against criminal enemies, people who owe them money, politicians, and other citizens in their history. The Brink crime family was founded in 1934 by Johannes Brink and his two brothers Hendrik and Benjamin. The Brinks reached their height in the mid 1950s and started to decline in power in the early 1970s. Their current leader is Issaac Lievendag, who is currently a fugitive from the National Dogger Security and Protection Force after escaping prison. He was in prison for his planning of the assassination attempt on Robert La Follette.

Netherlands
A group of three Dutch Calvinist brothers named Johannes, Hendrik and Benjamin Brink started to do pickpocketing in the early 1920s when they were kicked out of their home for being disobedient by their mother Ethel. Johannes was born in 1899, Hendrik in 1902, and Benjamin in 1904. They were pickpockets in Amsterdam, but would sometimes work in The Hague or Rotterdam. The Brinks decided to start their own street gang, and got into many fist fights with other local street gangs. One day in 1925 the brothers got into a fight with a rival gang. Johannes pulled out a gun and shot one of the rival gang members, who would later die. A policeman who was coming to stop the fight saw the murder, so Johannes killed him too. The brothers thought that with capital punishment being illegal in the Netherlands, they would get killed by a lynch mob, so they decided to flee Amsterdam. As fast as they could the brothers packed up all their belongings and went to the shipping docks. They snuck onto a cargo ship, unbeknownst to where it was going.

Starting out in Doggerland
The cargo ship that the brothers had been traveling on was heading for Nandels Port, Brun-Nord. The Brinks got off at the large port there and decided to head to Mistlân, Zuidvis after hearing about the large Dutch population there. They used the money they had brought with them to rent out an apartment unit. They started to pickpocket again, but eventually decided they must need a legitimate source of income. They started "Brink's Dutch Bakery" in 1927, which became a hub for Dutch immigrants to come to so that they could taste Netherlands again. The brothers saved up enough money to buy a townhome in 1930. When the store next to them was robbed twice in one week in 1932, the brothers thought they could make money if they offered the store owner security services. The store owner agreed, and in 1934 someone robbed his store. The Brinks were on vacation in Glavell at the time so they couldn't protect the store. When they got back to Mistlân they heard the news and talked to the store owner. He gave them a description of the burglar and the Brinks searched all over town for him. A few days later Johannes found the burglar at his apartment and asked for the money. The burglar refused and knocked out Johannes. Johannes was in the hospital for a few days, and when he got out he again found the burglar at his apartment and killed the burglar, while also retrieving the stolen money. Word spread through Mistlân that the Brinks would offer protection for a business, and the brothers helped out more businesses, hired people to protect those businesses, and eventually the Brink crime family was created.

Early family
The brothers opened up more bakeries around town, and got enough money to buy nice houses for themselves. They ran their operations in the basement of the original bakery. One day, Hendrik told his brothers that they should expand their activities. The brothers agreed and got involved in prostitution. They also put cops on their payroll. They sometimes used the docks to export and import drugs to and from other countries. They expanded into other southern cities like Rotsibaai, Kensingston, and Graki. They also did extortion, fraud, gambling, money laundering, murder, robbery, and loan sharking.



During World War II, Johannes and Hendrik were both drafted into the Dogger military, with Johannes going to the army and Hendrik going to the navy. Benjamin had to lead the Brink crime family while they were gone. Benjamin messed up lots of the operations, with many of their men being arrested and convicted. One day in 1945, while walking home from work, Benjamin was shot in the face by a deranged store owner who asked for protection from Benjamin but was denied service. His store had been robbed a week prior to him killing Benjamin. When Benjamin died, both Johannes and Hendrik got discharges from the military. Hendrik did not think that the Brink crime family could be ran again, but Johannes was determined to rebuild it. With many street gangs rising to prominence after the absence of the Brink crime family in Mistlân, Johannes thought to rise to power again he would have to crush those street gangs. The two brothers and their associates killed many street gang members, and the other gang members decided to join the Brink crime family. With so many new members to the Brink crime family, the Brink crime family quickly rose to prominence. In the late 1940s the brothers decided that to join their organization you would have to take an oath and be at least half Dutch, and they set up the structure of their organization: a boss who was in charge of everything, an underboss who is second in command, an advisor who is the counselor and advisor to the boss and underboss, gezagvoerders (gezas for short and now called captains) who oversaw a crew of soldiers, soldiers who were the lowest ranking and made up most of the members and did lots of dirty work, and recruits who weren't official members of the organization but still had to kick up money. Kicking up was when members would give part of the money that was kicked up to them or they made illegally to higher ranking members in the organization.

Height of the family
After expanding territory all the way into Port Nandels in the 1950s, the Brink crime family became a very large and powerful presence in southern Doggerland. While expanding their territories and activities, the Brink crime family had to have many policemen on their payroll. They even had some police chiefs on their payroll at times. When they started a crew in Glavell in 1959, they officially had crews in every province. They even had some local and federal politicians on their payroll. They had an estimated 400-500 members in the 1950s. Johannes was the boss of the whole family at the height, with his brother Hendrik being the underboss and Kasper Preuter being the advisor. They had 30-40 gezas, and around 400-450 soldiers. They had many other associates, such as lawyers, policemen, dockworkers, and politicians. The Brinks also decided to get into the drug trade, which was rapidly growing.

Since the Brinks were pretty much all Dutch Calvinist in the 1960s, they would generally support Dutch Calvinist politicians, especially those who would accept bribes from them. In 1964 they thought that the Dutch Calvinist with the best shot at becoming the new Prime Minister was Jeroen Kost, so they threw their full support behind him and donated lots of money to him. Kost accepted lots of the money from the Brinks but did not keep it on the books, fearing his opponents could use it against him. The Brinks extorted many TV channels to show advertisements of Kost, and many believe the advertisements of Kost led to his 1964 victory. In the 1968 election, the Brinks didn't have to extort any TV channels to win because of Kost shutting down polling places in majority Dogger places.

Decline in power


In early 1975, the Brinks decided to lower the amount of politicians and cops on their payroll to save some money, but that would eventually backfire. On August 27, 1975 Johannes Brink was arrested for his involvement in the hijacking of a truck that was carrying bank money. He pleaded innocent, but was found guilty. He also tried to bribe one of the jury members, so he was also charged with attempted bribery. Overall his penalty totaled out to 15 years in prison, and he was set to be released in October of 1990. The Brinks were convinced that the NPD had told law enforcement that Brink was behind the hijacking, even though the police would never talk to the NPD or vice versa. The Brinks subsequently had their crews in Glavell, Bloca and Crohall go after the NPD in those areas, even doing terrorist attacks on Dogger Catholic churches. The NPD revolted back at the Brinks, but the fighting would only last 2 months. Brink later died in prison on April 3, 1987 at the age of either 87 or 88 from a heart attack.

Hendrik took over as boss when Johannes went to jail, and because Johannes was such a great boss compared to Hendrik, the Brinks shrunk in size and started to lose territory. They became horrible at covering up their tracks of certain crimes. They tried to get involved in the cocaine trade going on in Latin America and Miami during the 1980s, but when Pablo Escobar heard about them wanting involvement in the cocaine trade he reportedly laughed and said "I only deal with people who are from countries with over 10 people". When a soldier talked to someone on the streets of Mistlân trying to sell him some marijuana in 1994, he was arrested because he was talking to an undercover cop. When he was at the station he squealed and admitted Hendrik ordered him to sell it. Hendrik was arrested on March 19, 1994 and was charged with intent to sell drugs. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He died after a few months in prison on June 22, 1994 at the age of either 92 or 91 from colon cancer.

A young man named Issaac Lievendag took over as boss. President of United Dockworker's Union and later Prime Minister of Doggerland Mel got rid of Brink corruption in the docks, so the Brinks lost control of the docks. The Brink crime family continued to decline in power and was almost completely dissolved when Mistlân District Attorney Robert La Follette went after them hard. They decided to fight back, so on January 20, 2013 while La Follette was stepping out of his car, a Brink sniper named Lourens Platenkamp shot La Follette in the right shoulder. He was rushed to the hospital, and Lievendag sent soldiers there to finish the job but they were stopped by police. La Follette was in a week long coma until he woke up. La Follette did not go after the Brinks after that, and the Brinks didn't go after him either. Platenkamp was arrested and convicted, and while being questioned he squealed on Issaac Lievendag. Both men went to prison, and Lievendag almost beat Platenkamp to death after a few weeks in prison. Lievendag escaped from prison after serving just two years, and Platenkamp is serving a life sentence. La Follette's son, Robert La Follette Jr., succeeded his father as Mistlân District Attorney, but was not as hard on the Brink crime family as his father has. Many speculate it was because La Follette Jr. thinked the Brinks would try to kill him like they did with his father.

Current day family
According to a 2015 police report, the Brink crime family shrunk to an estimated 50 official members. The current boss is most likely Issaac Lievendag, who is a fugitive from the National Dogger Security and Protection Force. The Brinks barely have any action, but in 2021 the crime rate in Mistlân increased significantly, and the Brinks may have had something to do with it. Their only known presence is in South Doggerland. They are currently at war with the Mancini crime family.