List of fictional institutions

This is a list of notable fictional institutions. Articles in this list must have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Fictional institutions include:

* List of fictional bands
* List of fictional companies
* List of fictional educational institutions
* List of fictional espionage organizations
* List of fictional fraternities and sororities
* List of fictional gangs
* List of fictional governments
* List of fictional law firms
* List of fictional media companies and events
* List of fictional military organizations
* List of fictional schools
* List of fictional political parties
* List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations

Medical/Technological

Asylums and mental health institutions

*Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, Gotham City - "Batman"

Hospitals

*Chicago Hope, Chicago, Illinois - "Chicago Hope"
*County General Hospital - "Ben Casey"
*County General Hospital, Chicago, Illinois - "ER"
*Community General Hospital, Los Angeles, California - ""
*Holby City Hospital, Holby, UK - "Casualty" and "Holby City"
*Kingdom Hospital, Lewiston, Maine - from Stephen King miniseries of the same name
*Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, Princeton, New Jersey - "House, M.D."
*Sacred Heart Hospital - "Scrubs"

Research institutes and facilities

*Black Mesa Research Facility - in the single-shooter game Half-Life
*Black Mesa East - also in Half-Life
*The Hanso Foundation - "Lost"
*Hereti-Corp - "Sluggy Freelance"
*Imagination Institute - "Journey Into Imagination with Figment"
*Mittelos Bioscience - "Lost"
*PACT Corporation (Progressive Allied Canadian Technologies) - "Northguard" comic book series
*Project Cadmus - DC Comics
*Robinson Heath Nuclear Utilisation Technology Centre - "The Leaky Establishment" and other works by David Langford
*S.T.A.R. Labs - DC Comics
*Umbrella Corporation - "Resident Evil"

Retirement homes and elderly care facilities

*Shady Pines, Miami, Florida - "The Golden Girls
*Springfield Retirement Castle, Springfield, USA - "The Simpsons"
*The Sunshine Home - "All in the Family"

Political/Governmental

Government/international agencies

Defense agencies

*G.I. Joe - ""
*S.H.I.E.L.D. (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division, later Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate) - Marvel Comics
*Starfleet - "Star Trek"
*Stargate Command - in Stargate SG-1
*S.T.R.I.K.E. (Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies- British version of SHIELD) - Marvel UK
*UNATCO (United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition) - "Deus Ex" video game and sequel, ""

Espionage/spy agencies

*Bureau of Sabotage - The Dosadi Experiment
*Cable Street Particulars (historic version) - "Discworld"
*CISO (Canadian International Security Organization) - "Captain Canuck" comic book series
*CONTROL - "Get Smart"
*CTU (Counter-Terrorist Unit) - ("24")
*The Diogenes Club - "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", various works of Kim Newman
*Earth Patrol - "Captain Canuck" comic book series
*Third Echelon - Splinter Cell videogame series.
*IMF (Impossible Missions Force) - black ops team, ""
*Obsidian Order - Cardassian intelligence, ""
*Public Security Section 9 - "Ghost in the Shell"
*Section 31 - Starfleet’s secret service - ""
*S.H.U.S.H. - "Darkwing Duck"
*Tal Shiar - Romulan intelligence, ' and '
*U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law Enforcement) - "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

"See also List of fictional secret police organizations"

Investigative agencies

* Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) - "Hellboy"
* Cable Street Particulars (modern version) - "Discworld"
* Celestial Intervention Agency - "Doctor Who"
*MiB (Men in Black) - "Men in Black"
*Ministry of Information, especially the Department of Information Retrieval - "Brazil"
*The Torchwood Institute - "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood"
*UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) - "Doctor Who"

Administrative departments

*Department H (Canada) - Marvel Comics
*Ministry of Magic (UK) - "Harry Potter"

Agencies whose powers cover all the above categories

*SEELE - "Neon Genesis Evangelion"

Jails and prisons

* Belle Reve Penitentiary - DC Comics esp. "Suicide Squad"
* Commander Riker's Island - "Futurama"
* Nova Prospekt - "Half-Life 2"

Police forces

*Ankh-Morpork City Watch - "Discworld"
*CSI Crime Scene Investigations also CSI Miami and CSI NY
*Gotham City Police Department - "Batman" esp. "Gotham Central"
*The Judges of Mega-City One - "Judge Dredd"
**Academy of Law
**Psi Division
**Public Surveillance Unit
**Special Judicial Squad (internal affairs)
*M.F.P. (Main Force Patrol) - "Mad Max"
*Science Police - 30th and 31st century police force in DC Comics' "Legion of Super-Heroes"

Paramilitary, rebel, and rogue military groups

:"See Guerrilla, Revolutionary, and Terrorist Organizations section at List of fictional military organizations"

Terrorist/criminal organizations

*Akatsuki - "Naruto"
*The Alliance of Twelve - "Alias"
*Black Sun (Star Wars) - "Star Wars"
*Brotherhood of Evil Mutants - "X-Men"
*KAOS - "Get Smart"
*Cobra Organization - ""
*Foot Clan - "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
*F.O.W.L. (Fiendish Organization of World Larceny) - "Darkwing Duck"
*Intergang - "Superman"
*ManDes (abbreviation of "Manifest Destiny") - Ultra-right-wing terrorist group in Northguard comic book
*NSF (Northwest Secessionist Forces) - "Deus Ex" and its sequel, ""
*The Hand - "Marvel Comics"
*SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion) - "James Bond" novels and films

Activist groups

*NO MA'AM (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood) - "Married...with Children"
*SNUH (Springfieldians for Nonviolence, Understanding, and Helping) - anti-cartoon violence organization, "The Simpsons"
*S.P.E.W. (Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare) - "Harry Potter"

Inter-political alliances

*Earth Alliance - "Babylon 5'
*Systems Commonwealth - Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda"
*Trade Federation - "Star Wars"
*United Federation of Planets - "Star Trek"
*United Planets - "Legion of Superheroes"
*ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty") - Gundam Seed"

Political parties

"See List of fictional political parties"

ocial

"For fraternities and sororities, see List of fictional fraternities and sororities"

Chivalric, brotherly, and secret orders

*International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons - "The Honeymooners"
*Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes - "The Flintstones"
*International Possum Brotherhood - "The Red Green Show"
*Order of the Phoenix - "Harry Potter"
*Priory of Sion - "The Da Vinci Code"

See also Secret societies#Fictional secret societies

ocial and private clubs

*The Diogenes Club - From the Sherlock Holmes stories.
*Drones Club - parody of bachelor's clubs, P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster series

treet gangs

*The Baker Street Irregulars - "Sherlock Holmes" stories
*The Beagle Boys - Walt Disney Comics esp. "Uncle Scrooge" "DuckTales"
*The Crazy 88s - "Kill Bill 1".
*The Dingbats of Danger Street - DC Comics``
*Foot Clan - "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
*The Jets - "West Side Story"
*The Jokerz - "Batman Beyond'
*The Merry Men - "Robin Hood"
*The Newsboy Legion - DC Comics
*the Savage Wolf gang - Marvel Comics
*The Sharks - "West Side Story"
*Street Demonz - DC Comics
*The Yancy Street Gang - Marvel Comics

The Warriors

*the Baseball Furies
*The Grammercy Riffs
*The Lizzies
*The Orphans
*The Punks
*The Rouges
*Turnbull A Cs
*The Warriors

Youth organizations

*Junior Chickadees - youth organization for girls, Scrooge McDuck Universe
*Junior Woodchucks - youth organization for boys, Scrooge McDuck Universe
*Jewbilee - Jewish youth camp, "South Park" -- note that a group called [http://www.thecurriculum.org TCI] now holds youth events called [http://www.thecurriculum.org/students/foryou.html Jewbilees]

Charitable or rescue organizations

*The Foundation for Law and Government - "Knight Rider"
*Lancre Fell and Dread Mountain Rescue Team - "Discworld"

Religious charities and foundations

:"See also List of fictional religions"

Places of worship

*The Ashram, California - "Green Arrow"
*First Church of Springfield - "The Simpsons"

Other

Libraries

*The Library of Babel - a library that is the entire universe, created by Jorge Luis Borges
*Quahog Public Library - "Family Guy"

Paranormal organizations

*BPRD (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense) - "Hellboy"
*F.E.A.R. team - "F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon"
*"Ghostbusters"
*Hellsing Organization
*Iscariot - "Hellsing"
*Planetary - comic by Warren Ellis
*Torchwood Institute - "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood"

Unions and professional organisations

*"F.I.S.T." (Federation of Inter-State Truckers) in the 1978 film of the same name.
*The Guilds of Ankh-Morpork - "Discworld"
*The Guild of Calamitous Intent - "Venture Brothers"
*Spacing Guild - Dune universe

porting or gaming leagues

*The Pokémon League - "Pokémon"

Miscellaneous

*Millennium Group - "Millennium (TV series)"
*Nelson Institute of Marine Research - "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)" The institute, owned and operated by Harriman Nelson, that owns the Seaview. They do Marine Research and occasionally do missions for the US Navy.

ee also

* List of fictional companies
* Companies in Atlas Shrugged
* List of fictional brands
* List of fictional places
* List of fictional radio stations
* List of fictional religions
* List of fictional schools
* List of fictional television stations

External links

* [http://www.tvacres.com/ TV Acres] with many lists of organizations from TV shows