These have two
main portions: K1, the costs of staying in power, which include election expenses, as
well as other investments in remaining a powerful and electable figure; and K2, the
costs involved in not getting found out, which can include direct payments to police
and judges, but also may include the costs of manipulating the press, or suppressing
academic research, or paying lawyers to write defamation suits, or whatever is needed
to cover up wrongdoing