You will hear "Family" plenty in the movie ("never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking") even in the article, the mystery caller who threatens not to make the movie says:
>“Get the fk outta town. Don’t shoot no movie about the family here. Got it?”
There are more, but those are the main active ones. Collectivley, they are Mafia type organisations.
The word Mafia itself is Sicillian in origin, and means "Swagger".
“A less romantic and more likely derivation of the name Mafia is a combined Sicilian-Arabic slang expression that means acting as a protector against the arrogance of the powerful. Until the nineteenth century, the appellation mafioso, a Mafia member, had wide currency in Sicily as a noncriminal, resolute man with congenital distrust of centralized authority.”
Excerpt From: Selwyn Raab. “Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Mast Powerful Mafia Empires.” Apple Books.
The mafia served as the protectors - and if not paid, harassers - of the people in this situation.
But I do contend that the better forms of government that are less mafia-like. Obviously absolute monarchies and dictatorships aren't among them.
Businesses also collect revenue, and if you don't pay them, harassment will also ensue, which you'd know if you've ever forgotten a payment and had a file sent to a collection agency, and ultimately to a civil court which is paid for by ... government. But that doesn't mean businesses are like mafias.
What distinguishes organized crime syndicates from governments and businesses is everything about them apart from "pay or be harassed" part, including but not limited to: the family-based structure and power inheritance model, the use of localized violence as coercion to payment (vs in exchange for services provided), and the lack of any transparent system of justice. Some governments (i.e. Saudi, North Korea) undoubtedly have more of those characteristics, but that doesn't mean that most governments are equivalent to organized crime syndicates.
Monarchies and nobility have the family based power structures and inheritance.
And locals go to the family for justice, similar to going to elders for dispute resolution in some cultures.
And almost all government power over locals ultimately relies on the threat of violence, we just call it police power.
I'm not advocating for it as an ideal system of government (or any form of government that I want to live under), but to discount it entirely is to not truly understand the dynamics at play. Or the circumstances of how such groups come to power.
Dictionary.com tells us: 1870–75; < Italian < Sicilian: orig., elegance, bravura, courage
So swagger would seem to be an appropriate translation.