History Main / GovernmentAgencyOfFiction

* Global Justice, an international crimefighting agency who sometimes call on ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.

* ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'': The comic has the IDS (Interdimensional Security), the Bureau, and the MSB (Magic Security Branch), which all seem to be different flavors of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The main character, [[MrFanservice Stan Smith]], works at the CIA and it mostly through the independent government agency that makes the series interesting as most of plot, gadgets, and characters originate from there, with Roger the alien and Klaus, the goldfish who was originally human, both met the Smith’s it.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV appears in the episode “DMV - Department of Mega Violations”, which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]]. However, it should be noted that New Jersey does not have an organization with the acronym DMV as they have a organization called the Motor Vehicle Commission or MVC instead as well as the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The main character, [[MrFanservice Stan Smith]], works at the CIA.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter’s African ancestor, Nate Griffin, decided to get one over on the white man by opening a DMV and becoming an ObstructiveBureaucrat as seen in the video examples of the trope’s page as well as [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPWMj9E6ZI here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV, which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2494443066906086178&q=family%20guy%20dmv&hl=en The DMV]].

* Department of Defense in ''Film/EagleEye''.
* [=MI6=] and the CIA, as seen in ''Film/JamesBond''.
** Referred as simply the British Secret Service in the [[Literature/JamesBond Fleming novels]].
** Ditto SMERSH, before their role was usurped by the completely fictional [[NebulousEvilOrganisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E.]], barring that one mention in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''.
** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' features the PLA Military Intelligence.
** ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' also includes the NSA.
* INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Division 6, one of J's cover stories in ''Film/MenInBlack''. After its absorption into Department of Homeland Security, however, it was reorganized into Customs and Border Protection on border control, and US Citizenship and Immigration Service for immigration.
* The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) plays a fairly large role in ''Film/{{Outbreak}}''. So does USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases).
* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' portrays the United States Air Force launching a covert mission through the [[CoolGate Stargate]] to investigate the alien world of Abydos [[spoiler:and to destroy the Gate on the other side if Abydos proves to be a threat.]] The [[Series/StargateSG1 spinoff series]] would go on to portray the Stargate being operated by various Department of Defense agencies under the fictional Stargate Command.
* The '''N'''uclear '''E'''mergency '''S'''upport '''T'''eam appears in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' as... let's just let Website/TFWikiDotNet [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/NEST#Notes try to explain it]].
* In ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'' the NSA is behind the project to develop the little black box and ends up hunting the protagonists after they steal it.
* The NSA started a program to recruit ''Film/XXx''.

* [=MI6=] is also seen in Creator/JohnLeCarre's works. It's nicknamed "The Circus" thanks to its headquarters being on Cambridge Circus (in-universe; in real life [=MI6=] headquarters overlooks the Thames). It is called the Circus until sometime between the end of ''Smiley's People'' and the start of ''The Russia House'', when the main part of the Service, as it then becomes known, moves to an unpleasant office building on the south bank of the Thames (as it did in real life), which is stated more clearly in ''The Secret Pilgrim''. This is explained as being partly because of a desire to get rid of everything which reminds them of TheMole from ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'', especially because they know he bugged the Circus before he was caught.

* ''Series//TheBill'': the series is a rare case of a British cop show being allowed to use the Metropolitan Police name and authentic uniforms. The latter required special security measures to prevent them falling into the hands of criminals - on the show's cancellation in 2010, they were handed over to the Met for the same reason.

* The FBI is a consistent presence in ''Manga/DeathNote'', although why they are suddenly investigating international cases instead of the CIA is never explained. This is TruthInFiction -- the FBI does sometimes get involved in international cases.
* In ''Anime/GreatPretender'', Cynthia pretends to be an FBI Agent to scam [[spoiler:Eddie Cassano]]. Then they hand him over to the real FBI.
* Interpol of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' does ''not'' operate the way [[InterpolSpecialAgent Inspector Zenigata]] makes use of it. Real Life has the International Police agency as a multinational information-sharing operation. Zenigata uses it as his authority to travel and arrest Lupin in ''any'' nation.
* The NPA is mentioned at least once in ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'', being the coordinating agency for police forces.

* Taken to the point of parody in ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'', in which the ''freaking FDA'' has a law enforcement division on par with the FBI (it's set in a dystopian future where chicken is a controlled substance). Later on, we bump into buxom female cyborg ninjas working for the USDA, and alien star children at NASA.

* The [=MI5=] and [=MI6=] in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', where not only works every British spy and agent from fiction (from [[Series/DangerMan John Drake]], Franchise/JamesBond, [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma Peel]] and more), but it was also used as [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the Ministry of Love]].
* In the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'', the real-life MI-5, [=MI6=] and the Joint Intelligence Committee have all appeared in ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'' stories written by Paul Cornell. [=MI6=] previously ran superhero operations in ''ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu''.
* ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry'' started out referring to British domestic intelligence as "Five" (like ''Series/TheSandbaggers'' does), but Creator/GregRucka was embarrassed to discover that most people nowadays [[ShownTheirWork refer to the agency as "Box"]], a nickname derived from the agency's official address, a [=PO=] Box. He promptly corrected the error in the rest of the series.

* In a rarer non-spying example, ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', with the '''N'''ational '''I'''nstitute of '''M'''ental '''H'''ealth (who probably weren't very happy about the depiction, let alone [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue the sequel]]).

* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', the FBI (or rather its pre-1935 incarnation, the Division of Investigation) has a branch dedicated to affairs regarding immortals and alchemy headed by Victor Talbot, an immortal himself.
* The CIA exists in ''Literature/TheCaseOfTheToxicSpellDump'', but they use [[OurGhostsAreDifferent actual spooks]].
* The Beeks in ''Literature/ChildOfTheHive'' are a government organization officially known as DPNI: Department for the Protection of National Intellect.
* NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is a federal institution out of ''Literature/DirkPittAdventures'' which led to the founding of a private organization of the same name which is headed by the author.
* SMERSH figured heavily in the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels (at least till use of the organization was phased out around the time of ''Literature/{{Thunderball}})''. However, the organization was never the super spy organization depicted, and may not have been in existence by the time that the Bond novels debuted. SMERSH (from ''SMER''t ''SH''pionam, or "death to spies") was in reality a sub-branch of the NKVD/MGB that was tasked during ([[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Great Patriotic War]]) with ferreting out ant-communist partisans, Nazi sympathizers and other enemies of the Soviet regime behind Soviet lines. They were also put in charge of the short manhunt for UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in Berlin at the end of the war. SMERSH was officially closed down in March 1946.
* The real [=MI7=] was the propaganda and censorship division of the War Office, currently defunct. In ''Literature/WildCards'', [=MI7=] is the branch of British Intelligence that employs the superpowered spies and assassins codenamed Silver Helix.

* ''Series//TheBill'' is a rare case of a British cop show being allowed to use the Metropolitan Police name and authentic uniforms. The latter required special security measures to prevent them falling into the hands of criminals - on the show's cancellation in 2010, they were handed over to the Met for the same reason.
* ''Series/CapeTown'' makes references to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (a South African Police Service division tasked with combating organized crime, corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking), but consistently calls it by its SquadNickname, "Hawks".

* ''Series/ColdSquad'' and ''Series/WakingTheDead'' introduced fictional police Cold Case divisions before such things began to [[DeFictionalization pop up timidly]] in RealLife. ''Series/ColdCase'' itself avoids the trope portraying the characters as regular Homicide detectives, but in season 7, just as the willing suspension of disbelief was being too stretched (and the perspective of cancellation seemed sure) the writers had the two main characters be [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot offered a position]] in a projected Cold Case FBI Unit.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' features stars the members of the BAU (an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_Analysis_Unit actual]] division of the FBI). The CIA and Interpol also appear in a few episodes.

* ''Average Joe'': The comic has a character from ASIO [[http://www.asio.gov.au/ (Australian Security and Intelligence Agency)]]. Although real-life ASIO agents do not carry guns, this character [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=319 uses his]] [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=435 with little provocation]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV , which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]].

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' has the eponymous FBI "Fringe Division", which works out of a basement at Harvard and consists of an ActionGirl, a MadScientist, his DeadpanSnarker son, TheHeart and the TeamPet reporting to the BaldOfAuthority. In an AlternateUniverse, Fringe Division is the main investigative arm of the Department of Defense and reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. The FBI no longer exists and Homeland Security was never created (since 9/11 wasn't as disastrous) in that version of the United States.
* ''Series/Intelligence2014'' uses the U.S. Cyber Command, which is a real agency, in a fictional way. For all intents and purposes, the real CYBERCOM seems to be more of a D.O.D function through the Armed Forces. CYBERCOM on Intelligence seems to be more of a technology focused sort of CIA, despite the Armed Forces pictures located in the main hall of the fictional CYBERCOM. It seems like it's just a tick more advanced than the real thing-even using a modified version of the actual CYBERCOM's emblem.

* The characters in ''Series/TheMentalist'' work for the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation). The RealLife name has since been changed to simply the Bureau of Investigation (BI), but the show is keeping the original name.

* Meyers in ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' is a secret agent working for the Canadian Department of Militia and Defense (about twenty years before it existed in RealLife).
* NCIS, CGIS and Mossad from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', though NCIS is relatively unknown to the general public... which is {{justified|Trope}} because most people only know about the organization because of the show.

* The Organization for Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) featured in ''Series/PsiFactor'' is allegedly a genuine international non-governmental organization, though the TV show (presumably) veered off the actual organization by a pretty wide margin.
* A more realistic takes on [=MI6=] (although referred to as SIS, its real name) and [=MI5=] can be found in ''Series/TheSandbaggers'' (although it depicts SIS using a structure reportedly closer to the real CIA).
* The British Security Service ([=MI5=]) is depicted in ''Series/{{Spooks}}''.
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' depicts the Ranger Division (state investigation bureau) of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
* The FBI's X-Files Division in ''Series/TheXFiles''.

* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', FEMA is the agency in charge of distributing the Ambrosia vaccine [[spoiler:and the Grey Death]]. [[TheDragon Walton Simons]] is the head of FEMA.
* ''VideoGame/DeathToSpies'' is named after the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH (whose name is an [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] meaning just that); the player takes the role of a counterintelligence agent and spy working for them during WWII.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'' games, real life government organizations such as the FBI, [=MI6=], and the CIA are occasionally brought up in different contexts, sometimes as allies/customers of the protagonist’s own (ethically amoral but politically neutral) organization, the ICA, and sometimes as being connected to some of the antagonists (e.g., the BigBad of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' is a former FBI director).
* The CIA, KGB, GRU, DARPA, US Department of Defense, and several other real-world agencies play prominent roles in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series.

* Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox, the SympatheticInspectorAntagonist and love interest of the eponymous thief from the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series, is an InterpolSpecialAgent, with INTERPOL itself having establishments and jurisdiction in different parts of the world.

* ''Average Joe'' has a character from ASIO [[http://www.asio.gov.au/ (Australian Security and Intelligence Agency)]]. Although real-life ASIO agents do not carry guns, this character [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=319 uses his]] [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=435 with little provocation]].
* ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'' has the IDS (Interdimensional Security), the Bureau, and the MSB (Magic Security Branch), which all seem to be different flavors of this.
* The FBI in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' are involved in dealing with supernatural threats and hiding magic in general. After [[TheUnmasquedWorld the masquerade breaks]], they shift from the latter to suppressing the knowledge of the accessibility of magic from the public.
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the FBI operate the Orsintos Labs project that studies various paranormal phenomena, including Oasis. It's explained that they do this because they're jealous of the CIA for hogging all the alien cases.

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* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfFoxTayle'', the FBI is after Tayle because he escaped from the fictional governmental [=BioCon=] corporation.
* The titular ''Website/SCPFoundation'' is a (mostly) private [[NGOSuperpower non-governmental]] organisation, but among the numerous Groups of Interest that exist within the lore of the multiple branches, many are state agencies such as the american Unusual Incidents Unit, the ukrainian Department of Abnormal Threats or the french Gendastrerie.

* The main character of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' works at the CIA.
* [[InterpolSpecialAgent INTERPOL]], ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''.
* The DMV in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) employs Patty and Selma. [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2494443066906086178&q=family%20guy%20dmv&hl=en Also seen in]] ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'' cartoon, in contrast with the game, has Cammy and her team as part of MI''5'', rather than MI''6''/SIS.

* ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': Season 3 gives us DOSA (Department of Statistical Anomalies), a [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]]-like agency tasked with dealing with [[TheMagicComesBack the resurgence of magic and supernatural creatures]].

* It is commonplace on British television to use fictional police services to avoid potential issues with script clearances for real ones.
** A very common one is the Greater London Police used in place of [[ScotlandYard the Metropolitan Police Service]]. However, it is common for dialogue to still refer to "the Met" resulting in an odd disconnect for British audiences.

* The {{hentai}} ''Anime/SpyOfDarkness'' has the Special Security Services Cabinet, which gives the spies of Q-section their marching orders.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Section 13 are the MenInBlack who help Jackie and his allies in dealing with the various supernatural threats. What makes them interesting is that they fell into that role somewhat by ''accident''; they really are just a normal {{Muggle}} law enforcement agency who recruited Jackie for his archaeological expertise. Then it turned out the criminal organization they were investigating were collecting magical artifacts for a SealedEvilInACan, and they found themselves in way over their heads...

* [=MI6=] is also seen in Creator/JohnLeCarre's works. It's nicknamed "The Circus" thanks to its headquarters being on Cambridge Circus (in-universe; in real life [=MI6=] headquarters overlooks the Thames). It is called the Circus until sometime between the end of ''Smiley's People'' and the start of ''The Russia House'', when the main part of the Service, as it then becomes known, moves to an unpleasant office building on the south bank of the Thames, which is stated more clearly in ''The Secret Pilgrim''. This is explained as being partly because of a desire to get rid of everything which reminds them of TheMole from ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'', especially because they know he bugged the Circus before he was caught.

* The Super-Secret Government Agency of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', headed by The General, and staffed by the incompetent [[TheMenInBlack men in black]] who call temselves [[SaltAndPepper Black and White]].

* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': Sector 7 from [[Film/{{Transformers}} the first film]] ("Never heard of it." "Never will."), followed by NEST in [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen the second]] (which has Autobots and various militaries cooperating to bring down Decepticon stragglers), Cemetery Wind in [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction the fourth]] (a CIA operation which is tasked with tracking down the Autobots and eliminating them after public opinion of them drops), and the Transformers Reactionary Force in [[Film/TransformersTheLastKnight the fifth]].

* The Parahuman Response Team or PRT from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is a law enforcement agency similar to the FBI that handles threats by superpowered people. It works closely with but is separate from the official government SuperTeam, [[HerosRUs The Protectorate]]. [[spoiler:In theory, anyway... it turns out the director of the PRT is actually the secret identity of the leader of the Protectorate]].

* The Bureau of Amplified Animals makes its (surprisingly only) appearance in a ''Comicbook/GreenLantern''/''Comicbook/TheFlash'' crossover called "Gorilla Warfare". Comicbook/RexTheWonderDog is their top agent, and his old buddy Comicbook/DetectiveChimp is the boss.

* ''Webcomic/CodeNameHunter'' gives us the '''R'''oyal '''C'''enter for '''S'''pecial '''I'''nvestigations.

* The Templar from ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia''.
* The Quad from ''Webcomic/{{Spy6teen}}''.

* The Royal Enforcement Division from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', a group that is supposed to take out enemies of the kingdom of Jahad, especially [[RebelliousPrincess rogue princesses]] and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Rankers]], [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters FUG members]] and [[TheDreaded Irregulars]]. [[SecretPolice Nasty bunch]], those guys.

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* ''Bigfoot & Gray on the Run'': As stated by the narrator during their introductory scene, Agents Knight and Daye are members of an US government agency known simply by the acronym of FBO. The agency's goal is unknown, but given the agents' mission to capture Bigfoot and Gray (a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti bigfoot monster]] and an extraterrestial alien, respectively), it seems to be along the lines of a [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black organization]] that searches for unusual living beings.

* ''Bigfoot & Gray on the Run'': As stated in the narration during their introductory scene, Agents Knight and Daye are members of an US government agency known simply by the acronym of FBO. The agency's goal is unknown, but given the agents' goal to capture Bigfoot and Gray (a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti bigfoot monster]] and an extraterrestial alien, respectively), it seems to be along the lines of finding unusual living beings.