A little known fact, Moscow is the city with the most individual spies in the world, bar none.
Even though Moscow has not been the center of the world in politics, economy, or intelligence for a long time, it still has the most individual spies, primarily because when the Soviet Union collapsed, the KGB laid off ninety percent of its staff.
Individual spies are different from intelligence brokers because intelligence brokers must have intelligence to sell, while spies, after losing their platform, not everyone can access intelligence. Moreover, most spies are not those who can fight and kill; those who can are operatives, and ninety percent of a spy organization's staff are in clerical positions.
Having been spies all their lives and then suddenly becoming unemployed, mistrusted by other countries, lacking the skills to become assassins or mercenaries, and unable to do anything else, of course, they naturally stick to their old trade to make a living.
