Editing Interest group

An '''interest group''' advocates a shift in policy for reasons that is very directly related to its own economic or social interests, i.e. favourable to its own members.  Unlike a [[lobby group]] they admit their direct interest in gaining from the policy.

We expect that [[Research Wiki]] will be infested with such groups more or less from day one, and that a [[Consumerium Research pilot]] will have to deal with this up front.

Such groups are modelled as ordinary [[faction]]s within [[Consumerium Services]] so that they can easily develop joint [[institutional buying criteria]].