One of the things that I expect a "legal" project to do is have its people claim they are simply going off grid. In and of itself that is not illegal. They could join a antitechnology compound in rural Idaho or become denizens of the Alaskan outback. If they provide someone with power of attorney to handle any legal matters that befall them that could throw the trail off for most small things.
This is where size gets restricted even further than the normal project. Distant relatives could start claiming that people are being held in a cult. Post Jonestown there could be all sorts of investigations that pop up.
There is also the potential for suspicion when a couple of thousand people don't start registering for social security yet are still though to be alive.
Red flags such as those above are why the canon project seems like it must commit fraud (falsifying deaths) in order to reach a substantial size.
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