Build a clan base of at least 50 members before trying to expand.
By 2160 BC, rulers in Herakleopolis controlled Lower Egypt in the north, while a rival clan based in Thebes, the Intef family, took control of Upper Egypt in the south.
Viewers who yearn for the benign, untroubled reign of the Huxtables can drop in on the Mitchells of "Moesha," an impeccably middle-class clan based on the youth of Sarah Finney, one of the show's creators, in a black neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Villas in the style of Montana's extravagant palazzo have been erected by mafia bosses in different parts of Italy: the head of the Alvaro di Sinopoli clan, based near Reggio Calabria, was building a palace fit for his descendants.
The Recknagel clan, based in Louisiana and headed by an irascible oilman father, was riddled with alcoholism, mental illness and bitter rivalries.
His book - whose title is a pun on "Camorra", the Neapolitan mafia - takes aim in particular at the clan based at Casal di Principe, outside Naples, where Saviano grew up.
The area is controlled by the notorious Haqqani network – the tribal jihadi clan based out of north Waziristan, and recently the subject of friction between the US and the Pakistani military.
He mobilised the apathetic youth and the disengaged women - two sections of the community who had long felt ostracised by the biradari, or "clan" based system, which has been in operation for many years.
Somali fisherman started out trying to deter illegal dumping and fishing and graduated from attacking vessels to seizing them for ransom, with the Hawiye clan, based around Haradere in central Somalia, emerging as the dominant group of pirates in 2004.
