History Main / GovernmentAgencyOfFiction

* Task Force 141 in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'', a multinational anti-terrorist special operations group that was formed in response to the detonation of a rogue nuclear weapon during [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare the first game]] (helmed under the command of US General Hershel Shepherd). [[spoiler:By ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'', due to Shepherd betraying them and killing the vast majority of their agents, they are all but eradicated and the remaining members are disavowed as terrorists themselves.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': The Federal Bureau of Control, or FBC, is a secret law enforcement agency, with the added twist of enforcing the laws of physics. They do this by finding paranatural phenomena such as Objects of Power and containing them in their headquarters in Manhattan. By removing them and keeping their existence a secret, the Bureau keeps the public from the high morality rate that these Objects of Power cause as well as keeping them out of the hands of those who would abuse their power, all the while scientists, such as the Bureau’s Head of Research [[MrFanservice Casper Darling]], study them in the hopes of [[{{Pun}} controlling]] them.

* ''VideoGame/DanceCentral'' has DCI (Dance Central Intelligence) who are basically a secret agency dedicated to protecting the world from dance crimes.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' features the FIB and IAA, expies of the FBI and CIA but replace the entire roster of the former with deluded self-serving homicidal spies who love dealing collateral damage more than their actual jobs of fighting terrorism, and the latter's modus operandi is to hook the senate on drugs (as seen in GTAIV) and create vials of an unknown substance, suspected to be neurotoxin for selling to terrorists. Half the game revolves around their gang war and the bank robbers they rope into working as proxies.

* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'': JP's, short for Japan Meteorological Agency, Geomagnetism Research Department, is an organization founded and run by a member of the Hotsuin family, with it being dedicated to studying geomagnetism and by extension combating extraterrestrial invaders. Three prominent staff members, outside TheProtagonist and his friends who join during the game, in both versions include Makoto Sako, the director’s right-hand woman, Otome Yanagiya, a doctor for the agency, and Fumi Kanno, the head scientist. Differences between the vanilla game and DLC include:
** In the vanilla version, the director is Yamato Hotsuin with the main operation base being located in the Diet Building located in Osaka.
** In the DLC version, the director is now Miyako Hotsuin with the main operation base being relocated to the Sky Tower in Tokyo.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': In the 2014 episode “The Fog of Courage”, it is revealed that the U.S. federal government has a Department of Curses as part of it’s cabinet, with an agency called the Federal Bureau of BLAH! under it.
** The Federal Bureau of BLAH! is a federal agency, under the Department of Curses, that researches cursed amulets as well as other artifacts and then publishes that information to the public online, which comes in handy for the DeathWorld nature of the show. The episode “Last of the Starmakers” also reveals that the Department of Defense also has two secret agencies, being the Department of Space Squids and the Department of Military Coverups.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': In the 2014 episode “The Fog of Courage”, it is revealed that the U.S. federal government has a Department of Curses as part of it’s cabinet, with an agency called the Federal Bureau of BLAH! under it

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Section 13 are the TheMenInBlack 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...

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The main character, [[MrFanservice Stan Smith]], works at the CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, and it is mostly through the independent government agency that makes the series interesting, as most of the characters, gadgets, and plots originate, with both Roger the alien and Klaus the human-turned-goldfish having met the Smith family, through it.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has appeared in a few episodes. In the episode “Dexter’s Debt”, it is revealed that Dexter buys all of his lab equipment from them and has amassed $200 million in debt that kicks off the plot of the episode in which Dexter has to raise the money before they come to collect. In the episode “Simion”, it is revealed that the [[MrFanservice titular character of the episode]] was just a regular test monkey on a space mission for the government administration until a horrible accident caused him to mutate into a talking humanoid simian {{Hunk}} with superpowers, spacecrafts, and [[WickedCultured money]] until [[spoiler:Monkey convinces him to give up his revenge scheme]] and [[HomeNudist live in the jungle wearing nothing]] but [[BriefsBoasting his white briefs]] giving the [[FemaleGaze audience a nice view]] before heading off deep into the jungle.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV in the episode “DMV - Department of Mega Violations”, which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]]. However, the Division of Motor Vehicles, for which it is based on, under the New Jersey Department of Transportation was reorganized in 2003, a year before the episode aired, and became the Motor Vehicle Commission, or MVC, which self-operates independently from NJDOT.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. The pilot mentions a government agency called the Federal Security Agency, or FSA, that oversees the Mutant Registration Agency, a NonGovernmentalOrganization. An agency by both that name and acronym existed from 1939 to 1953 before being replaced by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. However, the two differ in the areas that they oversee, with the real one overseeing areas dealing with conservation, education, public health, social security, and several other areas, while the fictional one acts more like the [[NoSuchAgency National Security Agency, or NSA]], with some of the negative associations as they either didn’t know about, or helped with, the Mutant Registration Agency [[NGOSuperpower and their secret Sentinel Program]] before [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory the unnamed 1990 female U.S. President]] pulled the plug on Henry Peter Gyrich.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': In the 2014 episode “The Fog of Courage”, it is revealed that the U.S. federal government has a Department of Curses as part of it’s cabinet, with an agency called the Federal Bureau of BLAH! under it, with one of the areas it oversees being cursed amulets and artifacts due to the DeathWorld nature of the setting and publicizes that information for the public online.

* ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'': The PlayerCharacter commands a commando squad during the final two years of World War II, i.e. 1943-45, and depending upon the players choice can side with either the Allies and be apart of the Special Operations-[=SE2=] or Axis and be apart of Abwehr Section 2. Regardless of whichever side the player picks, however, they both still carry out operations behind the frontlines of whichever side the player did not chose and investigate a third faction, Thor’s Hammer Investigation.

* Spookhouse (officially named the Domestic Supernatural Research and Defense League) from ''VideoGame/Nocturne1999''. Founded by Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 after he killed a werewolf in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, they are a small agency who operate under the cover of the 'Department of Biological and Wildlife Research'.

* Depending on which side you pick in ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'', you will either end up working for Special Operations-[=SE2=] (Allies) or Abwehr Section 2 (Axis). In the stand-alone ExpansionPack, the remnants of both now-defunct agencies merge into the Sentinels, although the new organization is not funded by any nation (which means you now have to buy weapons and ammo).

* In ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'', Race Bannon works for a U.S. Government organization called Intelligence One, and Dr. Quest sometimes helped them out. It only appears in two episodes, "The Mystery of the Lizard Men" and "Riddle of the Gold".

* ''Film/JamesBond'': After the events of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', both MI-5 and [=MI6=] have been merged to form the Joint Intelligence Service, headed by Max Denbigh.
* MI-7 in ''Film/JohnnyEnglish''. Possibly unknown to the filmmakers, there really was a British Military Intelligence Section 7: it was in charge of propaganda and was eventually extinguished.

* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The Public Safety [[DemonSlaying Devil Hunters]] Bureau is a CreatureHunterOrganization operated by the Japanese government.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. The pilot features the Federal Security Agency, or FSA, with an agency existing by that name and acronym, which existed from 1939 to 1953 and was replaced by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. However, the two differ in the areas that they oversee with the real FSA overseeing areas dealing with conservation, social security, education, public health, and several other areas. Meanwhile, the fictional FSA acts more like the [[NoSuchAgency National Security Agency, or NSA]], with it overseeing the NonGovernmentalOrganization Mutant Registration Agency, that is [[NGOSuperpower tied to the Sentinel Program]], on behalf of the [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory unnamed female U.S. President in the 1990’s]] until she saw that the X-Men were willing to risk their lives to erase their data being used by Henry Peter Gyrich and subsequently pulled the plug.

** The eponymous X-COM is actually unaffiliated with ''any'' government, existing as an autonomous agency that nevertheless ''answers'' to the Council of Nations. There's also EXALT in ''[[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown Enemy Within]]'', which is not a ''government'' agency but has in fact infiltrated and attempts to control ''a'' government in the Council of Nations. It's up to X-COM to determine which government it is.
** X-COM is, however, a US agency in ''VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified'', originally formed during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as a contingency in case of a Soviet invasion. They end up being the most prepared to deal with the Outsider invasion.

* The Office of Secret Intelligence from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. The main branch operates much like ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, but apparently a splinter group is a CaptainErsatz for Franchise/GIJoe.

* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'': JP's, short for Japan Meteorological Agency, Geomagnetism Research Department, is an organization founded and run by a member of the Hotsuin family, with it being dedicated to studying geomagnetism and by extension combating extraterrestrial invaders.

* JP's in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' leaps between this and AncientConspiracy.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. The pilot features the Federal Security Agency, or FSA, with an agency existing by the name and acronym which existed from 1939 to 1953, when it was replaced by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. However, the two differ in the areas that they oversee with the real FSA oversaw areas dealing with conservation, social security, education, public health, and several other areas. Meanwhile, the fictional FSA acts more like the [[NoSuchAgency National Security Agency, or NSA]], which oversees the NonGovernmentalOrganization called the Mutant Registration Agency, which is [[NGOSuperpower tied to the Sentinel Program]], on behalf of the [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory unnamed female U.S. President in the 1990’s]] until she saw that the X-Men were willing to risk their lives to erase their data being used by Henry Peter Gyrich and subsequently pulled the plug.

* The Federal Bureau of Control in ''VideoGame/{{Control}}''.

* The RAPT (Recently Armed Police Taskforce) in ''Anime/BurstAngel''.

* Hypnos and DATS in ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', MIB agencies.
* ''Literature/DirtyPair'': The Worlds Welfare Work Association (3WA), with ''troublesome'' agents Kei and Yuri.
* Dorothea in ''Anime/FairyGone'', a government office that reports directly to the Prime Minister and is tasked with investigating crimes involving the illegal usage of fairies.
* The ''brave heroes'' of the Gutsy Galaxy Guard of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' fame ("3G BANZAI!") and their American and Chinese branches and French sister organization, Chasseur, all with their own contingent of Brave Robots.
* Public Security Section 9 in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', as well as the Cabinet Intelligence Agency in ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Stand Alone Complex]] 2nd GIG''. They're intended to be more like fictional branches of the very real (although less than widely publicized) Japanese intelligence establishment. It isn't a monolithic entity but is more like an umbrella organization coordinating various semi-independent sections, so a couple of fictional ones would fit the structure just fine.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': The Social Welfare Agency is an Italian government agency created to seek out traumatized or abandoned little girls and give them a second chance in life. In actuality, however, they subjects the girls to brainwashing, drugs, and cyberization with the girls being forced to do the dirty work of the government. All of the girls are given a male handler who controls the amount of drugs they are given as well as overseeing both their training and missions.
* The Organization from ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' presents itself as possibly being one of these, but later information seems to indicate that it's more of a small group of individuals who happen to be well-connected.
* ''Manga/{{Heroman}}'' includes the NIA (National Intelligence Agency), a domestic surveillance/law enforcement (?) agency that works closely with the military and seems to take its orders directly from the President.
* The Time-Space Administration Bureau of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''. Granted, it serves an ''alien'' government, but in ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers StrikerS]]'', the focus is on the Bureau's homeworld, so it isn't quite so alien anymore.
* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', Hinagiku is a special intelligence branch of the Japanese government founded and run by Rin Fudo. They handle under-the-table work for the Japanese government beyond the scope of regular law enforcement, such as tackling terrorists and rogue spies.
* NERV, SEELE and GEHIRN from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', although NERV is the one that gets 95% of the screen time.
* The Sakura Kikan in ''Anime/NightRaid1931''.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' has the ''Commission of Counter Ghoul'' (CCG), a Japanese law enforcement agency responsible for handling all matters related to Ghouls. They are shown to have the authority to give orders to local Police, and particularly talented Investigators may spend time loaned out to similar organizations in other countries. The German organization ''Ghoul Forschung Gesellschaft'' is mentioned numerous times, suggesting some significance that hasn't been revealed yet.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The main character, [[MrFanservice Stan Smith]], works at the CIA and it is mostly through the independent government agency that makes the series interesting, as most of the characters, gadgets, and plots originate through it, with both Roger the alien and Klaus the goldfish, who was originally human, having met the Smith family through it.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has appeared in a few episodes. In the episode “Dexter’s Debt”, it is revealed that Dexter buys all of his lab equipment from them and has amassed $200 million in debt that kicks off the plot of the episode in which Dexter has to raise the money before they come to collect. In the episode “Simion”, it is revealed that the [[MrFanservice titular character of the episode]] was just a regular test monkey for the government administration on a space mission until a horrible accident caused him to mutate into a talking humanoid simian {{Hunk}} with superpowers, spacecrafts, and [[WickedCultured money]] until [[spoiler:Monkey convinces him to give up his revenge scheme]] and [[HomeNudist live in the jungle wearing nothing]] but [[BriefsBoasting his white briefs]] giving the [[FemaleGaze audience a nice view]] before heading off deep into the jungle.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV in the episode “DMV - Department of Mega Violations”, which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]]. However, the Division of Motor Vehicles under the New Jersey Department of Transportation was reorganized in 2003, a year before the episode aired, and became the Motor Vehicle Commission, or MVC, which self-operates independently from NJDOT.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV in the episode “DMV - Department of Mega Violations”, which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]]. Strangely, despite the animation director being from New Jersey, it should be noted that New Jersey doesn’t have an agency with the acronym DMV as instead they have a Motor Vehicle Commission, or MVC, as well as the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

and a private organization called the Mutant Registration Agency, which is tied to the Sentinels.

* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' features the FSA (Federal Security Agency) and a private organization called the Mutant Registration Agency, which is tied to the Sentinels.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has appeared in a few episodes. In the episode “Dexter’s Debt”, it is revealed that Dexter buys all of his lab equipment from and has amassed $200 million in debt that kicks off the plot of the episode in which Dexter has to raise the money before they come to collect the money. In the episode “Simion”, it is revealed that the [[MrFanservice titular character of the episode]] was just a regular test animal for the government administration on a space mission until a horrible accident caused him to mutate into a talking [[{{Hunk}} hunky]] humanoid simian with superpowers, spacecrafts, and [[WickedCultured money]] until [[spoiler:Monkey convinces him to give up his revenge scheme]] and [[HomeNudist live in the jungle wearing nothing]] but [[BriefsBoasting his white briefs]] giving the [[FemaleGaze audience a good view]] before heading off deep into the jungle.

* ''TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse'':

* The Dai Li from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' serve as a SecretPolice force in Ba Sing Se.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', the Men in Black identify themselves to civilians as Division 6 of whatever real governmental agency would sound appropriate. Thus, for an episode dealing with alien plants, they identify themselves as Department of Agriculture, Division 6, an episode dealing with extraterrestrial drugs has them calling themselves Drug Enforcement Agency, Division, 6, and so on (which gets really silly when they are in a cinema and introduce themselves as "Ushers: Division 6"). It's later revealed that "Division 6" is the name of the branch of M.I.B. they work in.

* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': The podcast features agents from the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] Vague Yet Menacing Government Agency.

* ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' has [[TheEmpire Avelia]]'s Office of Strategic Services and [[ThoseWackyNazis Sirene]]'s Reichsnachrichten.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has two.

* ''Literature/{{Galactiquest}}'' has the Interstellar Forces, a space-focused US military branch that [[{{Nerf}} technically isn't a military]].
* ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' has the various organizations established to deal with paranormal (or "Fortean", as they’re officially dubbed) phenomena.
** The earliest on record is the Department of Transcendent Research established by Fascist Italy.
** The Allied Occult Initiative, a joint operation by the Allies to counter the Axis' occult efforts. It was eventually dissolved after the war when the Western powers and Soviets went their separate ways.
** The Special Projects Division (or OSP using its Russian spelling) was established by Stalin at the end of WWII to handle Soviet supernatural studies.
** The Fortean Studies Bureau is formed by the American government after the AOI falls apart.
** The British develop a full Ministry of Science (in OTL, British scientific matters are organized as various departments under other ministries), which is tasked with handling unusual matters, primarily being focused on studying the time travel abilities of the Loch Ness Monster.
** Romania develops the Bureau of Esoteric Research and Development (BCDE in Romanian) as part of Ceausescu's efforts to give his country more autonomy from the Soviets in regard to paranormal matters.
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' features the Unusual Incidents Unit of the FBI, their world's equivalent of "The X-Files". However, also considered a dead-end job for the FBI, and they only find actual SCP items very rarely. They're also looked down upon by the other organizations that investigate anomalies.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The titular organization 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.

* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfFoxTayle'', the [=BioCon=] corporation worked under the government creating genetic experiments, but one escaped and now the FBI has to chase him.
* The [[MutantDraftBoard Atypical Monitors]] (A.M.) in ''Podcast/TheBrightSessions''
* ''AudioPlay/TheCartographersHandbook'' was created by the fiction National Intelligence Agency.
* The ESS in both ''Literature/ChronoHustle'' and ''Literature/SimpleComplications''.

* ''Website/TheFederalVampireAndZombieAgency'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. They also deal with werewolves.

* ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'': The League operate under the Department of Superheroics.
* ''WebVideo/Local58'': The Department for the Preservation of American Dignity, a government agency created sometime during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, with the purpose of inciting mass suicide in the event that the United States is forced to surrender to a foreign enemy, ''or worse'', with its reasons to do so currently being up to speculation.

* ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' has [[TheEmpire Avelia]]'s Office of Strategic Services and [[ThoseWackyNazis Sirene]]'s Reichsnachrichten.
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has two.
** Project: Freelancer is presented as a UNSC sponsored SuperSoldier program, dedicated to creating enhanced agents to fight the Covenant, partnered with ArtificialIntelligence in suits of advanced suits of armor with varying armor abilities. As time went on, however, the Project became more and more involved in shady activities, and the Freelancer Agents found themselves fighting humans more often than aliens.
** The UNSC Oversight Subcommittee was formed in response to reports of ''multiple'' of the aformentioned Freelancer agents in the field at once equipped with AI at any given time, when the program was only ever given a single AI unit. [[spoiler:It turns out that the chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee is engaged in even ''worse'' activities than Freelancer was.]]

* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' features agents from the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] Vague Yet Menacing Government Agency.
* The dreaded Mutant Commission Office in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. Mutants often call it the 'Mutant ''Control'' Office'.

* The titular organization from ''Manga/Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'', an agency that manages the police, fire departments, and various other services in the 13 districts of Dowa Kingdom.

* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' has the Public Safety [[DemonSlaying Devil Hunters]] Bureau, a CreatureHunterOrganization operated by the Japanese government.

* The Social Welfare Agency in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''.