Sunrise, Parabellum

Suppose that one day, you wake up and find yourself in a position of power. In this thread, you magically become a cult leader with a substantial number of loyal followers you may bend to support whatever cause you profess. For more variable/creative thought, we'll give two scenarios to choose from.

In both scenarios:
~ Your followers are representative of the general population (local to you in scenario 1, global in scenario 2) in things like intelligence, education, income, skills, age, disabilities, et cetera. This means you'll have a minority of geniuses and retards, a minority of richfags and poorfags, and a minority of super-athletes and cripples. Most of your followers will be somewhere in between.
~ As an implication of the above, you can't (for example) have them fund anything outside of what X number of followers can reasonably fund, like 10,000 followers funding a space program to compete with NASA, nor can you have all of them be able to shoot with the precision of Ben Garrison when he encounters a ***** within just a day of training.
~ Ideology, on the other hand, is not representative of the general population. Your ideals can be as far from the Overton window as you'd like.
~ You may be seen as a kind of god by your followers, but you are still a mortal being with physical danger to worry about.
~ Governments and other organizations [bold: will] fight back if you try to attack them in ways they can see.

Scenario 1 (More realistic):
~ You have 10,000 followers to start with.
~ Your followers are almost exclusively in your area.
~ Your followers will leave behind their friends, families, and employment if that's what you and/or those you entrust with leading roles say to do, with almost no questions asked. However, most will question you and many will leave your cult at the suggestion of sacrificing their very lives for your cause if you try to go about it without sufficient tact and gradual radicalization.
~ Expanding on the above point, you must have an actual cause that you generally stay consistent with. Some contradictions are allowed here and there, but if you decide to completely flip everything your movement stands for upside down over a short period, you'll lose almost all of your followers.
~ Law enforcement agencies and/or militaries will go after you if any widespread criminal activity is discovered in your cult. The extent to which they will depends on how stigmatized the criminal activity itself is, and how widespread it is. If you have your followers sit around in some park smoking crystal meth as part of a ceremony every couple months, they probably won't do much more to you than they would any other hippie. If lots of your followers have *****ual relations with shotas and/or lolis in real life with your approval, you best have a really good plan to relocate in some third world shithole without anyone noticing. If you actually mobilize your followers against the government, the military will Waco you and every last follower of yours without any remorse or hesitation.

Scenario 2 (More on the side of morbid wish fulfillment):
~ You have 1,000,000 followers to start with.
~ Your followers are spread out internationally. They'll gladly move wherever you tell them to, to the best of their abilities.
~ Your followers will do anything, no matter how against their own conscience or sense of self-preservation, all for you. The only limit is that of their abilities.
~ This means that they are fully brainwashed, with little hope of ever leaving your cult voluntarily. You can say to make a massive lifestyle change one day, and then strongly advocate against it the next, and they'll still believe you are unfailingly right. They're in everything for you more than anything else.
~ Law enforcement agencies and/or militaries will turn a blind eye to almost anything that goes on in the community you create. The only way to sabotage this is by attacking them directly.

Some opening questions to stimulate the mind:
~ Would you try to expand your cult further than the initial number of followers you have, or would you keep whatever community you create heavily gatekept?
~ What would you have your followers believe? Would you have them proselytize to the people they know?
~ Would you let them keep their lives before they joined your cult, or would you have them huddle up in a private village where they're expected to get all of their needs from, contact with the outside world being frowned upon?
~ Would you try to mobilize your followers against other cults, organizations, or governments?
The above questions are just guidelines. You can expand on what you would do however you'd like.