Cabal
I quite enjoy the fact that it was named 'Cartel' (as in "not Syndicate but..."). What other options were considered? Clearly it could also have been 'Trust', 'Combine' or even 'Conglomerate'
Jorjani also mentioned in his
interview that "We were a little worried that the name [Cartel] had some drug connotations. . ."
I, as an English major, strongly propose that this game be named "Cabal."
"Cartel," with its negative drug connotations, is also a term limited to economics, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "[After German kartell.] an agreement or association between two or more business houses for regulating output, fixing prices, etc." "Cabal" has stronger undertones of political and military intrigue, defined by Merriam-Webster as "the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues."