As the captain of the Donquixote Pirates and a former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Donquixote Doflamingo is an extremely powerful pirate who had complete authority over the two thousand soldiers and eleven officers of his pirate crew. He was active in the realm of underworld brokering (including slavery, drugs, production and distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and Devil Fruit trafficking) in the New World, and the most resourceful and influential broker there was.