1. Medical/Technological
    Asylums and mental health institutions  Hospitals  Research institutes and facilities  Retirement homes and elderly care facilities 

2. Political/Governmental
    Government/international agencies  Defense agencies  Espionage/spy agencies  Investigative agencies  Administrative departments  Agencies whose powers cover all the above categories  Jails and prisons  Police forces  Paramilitary, rebel, and rogue military groups  Terrorist/criminal organizations  Activist groups 

3. Inter-political alliances
    Political parties 

4. Social
    Chivalric, brotherly, and secret orders  Social and private clubs  Youth organizations 

5. Charitable or rescue organizations
    Religious charities and foundations  Places of worship 

6. Other
    Libraries  Paranormal organizations  Unions and professional organisations  Sporting or gaming leagues 

7. Miscellaneous

8. See also

9. External links

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:

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Medical/Technological

Asylums and mental health institutions

• Radley Sanitarium- Pretty Little Liars
• Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, Gotham City - Batman
• Arkham Sanitarium, Arkham, Mass - H.P. Lovecraft
• Briar Ridge Mental Hospital - The Green Mile
• Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital - House, M.D.
• Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane - Outlast
• New Bedlam Rest Home for the Emotionally Interesting - The Simpsons
• Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute - Lost
• Shady Acres Mental Hospital, Tampa - Pet Detective
• Somafree Institute - The Brood
• Verrückt - Call Of Duty: World At War / Black Ops Nazi Zombies Map

• Rutledge Asylum - American McGee's Alice / Madness Returns

Hospitals

• All Saints Hospital, New York City - Nurse Jackie
• Angels Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, California, Code Black
• Chelsea General Hospital, Portland, Oregon - Monday Mornings
• Chicago Hope, Chicago, Illinois - Chicago Hope
• County General Hospital - Ben Casey
• County General Hospital (Chicago, Illinois) - ER
• Community General Hospital, Los Angeles, California - Murder
• Holby City Hospital, Holby, UK - Casualty and Holby City
• James Rivers Hospital - New setting of the TV program Hawthorne
• Kingdom Hospital, Lewiston, Maine - from Stephen King miniseries of the same name
• North General Hospital - Close S3 Ep1 Nurse Jackie
• Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, Princeton, New Jersey - House, M.D.
• Richmond Trinity Hospital, Richmond, Virginia - Hawthorne (The hospital closed in season 2).
• Sacred Heart Hospital - Scrubs
• Lennox Hill Hospital - Mentioned Occasionally Nurse Jackie
• Bellvue Hospital - Mentioned Occasionally Nurse Jackie
• Beth Israel Hospital - Mentioned S3 EP3 Nurse Jackie
• Brookhaven Hospital - Silent Hill series
• St Hugh's Hospital - The Bill
• Mercy Hospital - House, M.D., Left 4 Dead 2 and The Heist
• Seattle Grace Hospital Teaching Hospital - renamed Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital and its current name Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital Grey's Anatomy
• Seattle Presbyterian Hospital - Name used Occasionally Grey's Anatomy
• St. Ambrose's Hospital - Private Practice
• St. Sebastian's Hospital - House, M.D., Lost, and Criminal Minds
• St. Andrew's Hospital, St. Mark's Medical Centre - Monk
• St. Vincent's Hospital - Close S3 EP1 Nurse Jackie
• Springfield General Hospital - The Simpsons
• Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous - High Anxiety
• Rittenhouse Hospital and Free clinic - Strong Medicine
• Rampart General Hospital - Emergency!

Research institutes and facilities

• Black Mesa Research Facility - in the single-shooter game Half-Life
• Black Mesa East - Half-Life
• The Big Mountain Research Facility - from New Vegas
• The Institute - from Fallout 4
• Black Letter Labs - from the Black Letter Game
• Aperture Science Laboratories - Portal and Portal 2
• Gizmonic Institute - Mystery Science Theater 3000
• 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
• The Jeffersonian Institute - "Bones"
• Biocyte Pharmaceuticals - Impossible 2
• NorBAC ("North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission") - "ReGenesis"
• The D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative-"Lost'
• International Genetics (InGen)-Jurassic Park

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 - A Real American Hero
• NEST - Revenge of the Fallen
• Sector Seven - Transformers
• 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, Invisible War
• UNSC (United Nations Space Command) - in Halo (series)
• Angel Team- The Assault By Brian Falkner
• Ghost Team- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon by David Michaels
• Green Lantern Corps - Guardians of the universe in DC Comics.
• X-COM - International Extreterrestrial Defense Organization from the X-COM series
• W.S.P. - World Space Patrol - Gerry Anderson's "Fireball XL5"
• W.A.S.P. - World Aquanaut Security Patrol - Gerry Anderson's Stingray"
• Spectrum - Gerry Anderson's "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons / New Captain Scarlet"
• U.N.I.T." - United Nations Intelligence Taskforce/UNified Intelligence Taskforce - "Doctor Who"
• SHADO - Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation - Gerry Anderson's UFO (TV series)

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, NSA's ultra-secret sub-division - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell video game and novel series.
• IMF (Impossible Missions Force), black ops team - Impossible
• Obsidian Order - Cardassian intelligence, Deep Space Nine
• Public Security Section 9 - Ghost in the Shell
• Section 31 - Starfleet’s secret service - Deep Space Nine
• S.H.U.S.H. - Darkwing Duck
• Tal Shiar - Romulan intelligence, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine
• U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law Enforcement) - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• W.I.N. - World Intelligence Network - Gerry Anderson's "Joe 90"
• B.I.S.H.O.P. - British Intelligence Service Headquarters Operation Priest - Gerry Anderson's "The Secret Service"

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 (Brazil), especially the Department of Information Retrieval - Brazil
• The Torchwood Institute - Doctor Who and Torchwood
• UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) - Doctor Who
• Angel Investigations - "Angel"
• SCP Foundation
• UIU (Unusual Incidents Unit)

Administrative departments

• Department of Administrative Affairs (UK) - Yes Minister
• Department H (Canada) - Marvel Comics
• Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship (UK) - The Thick of It
• 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
• Superjail
• Azkaban - Harry Potter
• Blackgate Penitentiary - Batman

Police forces

• Ankh-Morpork City Watch - Discworld
• Crime Scene Investigations also Miami and 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
• S.T.A.R.S - the Special Tactics and Recovery Squad from Resident Evil Series
• LCPD - Liberty city Grand Theft Auto

Paramilitary, rebel, and rogue military groups

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

Terrorist/criminal organizations

See also
List of criminal organizations in comics
List of criminal organizations in DC Comics
List of criminal organizations in Marvel Comics

• Akatsuki - Naruto
• The Alliance of Twelve - Alias
• Black Sun - Star Wars
• Brotherhood of Evil Mutants - X-Men
• KAOS - Get Smart
• Cobra - A Real American Hero
• Confederacy Of Independent Systems - Star Wars
• Foot Clan - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Galactic Empire - Star Wars
• Shadoloo (or Shadolaw) - Street Fighter
• F.O.W.L. (Fiendish Organization of World Larceny) - Darkwing Duck
• Intergang - Superman
• International Contract Agency - Hitman videogame series.
• ManDes (abbreviation of "Manifest Destiny") - Ultra-right-wing terrorist group in Northguard comic book
• NSF (National Secessionist Forces) - Deus Ex and its sequel, Invisible War
• The Hand - Marvel Comics
• S.C.Y.T.H.E. - DC Comics
• Shocker - Kamen Rider
• SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion) - James Bond novels and films
• Team Aqua - Pokémon
• Team Galactic - Pokémon
• Team Magma - Pokémon
• Team Rocket - Pokémon
• Team Plasma - Pokémon
• Vulture - DC Comics

Activist groups

• 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'
• European Confederation - Cauldron
• 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
• League of the 20,000 Planets - Lexx

Political parties

Social

Chivalric, brotherly, and secret orders

See also Secret societies#Fictional secret societies

• International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons - The Honeymooners
• The Mystic Knights of the Sea - Amos and Andy
• 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

Social and private clubs

• The Diogenes Club of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
• Drones Club of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster series
• Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things of Monty Python's Flying Circus

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 TCI now holds youth events called 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
• Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe - George Lopez. George crawls on his knees up the path to this church (And as a result suffers a severe knee injury) to keep his promise to God to do so. He had promised to do so in exchange for God curing his dog's, Mr. Needle's, tumor.

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

• Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD) - Hellboy
• Center - Martin Mystery
• F.E.A.R. team - F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon
• Ghostbusters
• Hellsing Organization
• Iscariot - Hellsing
• Paragon Institute - The Fury
• Planetary - comic by Warren Ellis
• ConSec (Scanner Research Section) - Scanners
• 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 - The Venture Bros.
• Spacing Guild - Dune universe

Sporting 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.
• The Centre - Delaware-based think tank - The Pretender
• International Rescue - Gerry Anderson's "Thunderbirds" (TV series 1965-1966) / "Thunderbirds Are Go" (motion picture)/ "Thunderbird 6" / "Thunderbirds Are Go!" (TV Series 2015-2016)
• Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality - The West Wing

See also

• List of fictional brands
• List of fictional places
• List of fictional radio stations
• List of fictional religions
• List of fictional television stations

External links

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