The Count Four is the governing body of a conglomerate of criminal organizations in the Four-City Alliance. With their combined influence, the members of the Count Four control the Alliance's criminal underworld. By 3060 AD, the Count Four consisted of the four counts—Carrel van der Verf, Hans Memlink, Gie de Grandville and Thierry Darsus—of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bruges, and Brussels. After the death of van der Verf, Memlink referred to the group as the "Count Three."