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* One of the Tau codexes has an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor making a diplomatic visit to a Tau world. The Tau dignitary coincidentally leads him past a training area full of drilling Fire Warriors that just happens to bear great resemblance to a gutted Imperial city, with mock-up burned and wrecked vehicles that look suspiciously like Imperial Guard tanks.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5952595/1/Why-and-were Why and Were]]'', it is revealed that at his own expense, Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch has provided such a training facility for recruit Watch members, at his own expense. This is nicknamed "Toytown", possibly by multiversal resonance with the British Army version '''(below)'''.

* The British Army maintains a whole mocked-up small town for training soldiers in urban combat. Nicknamed "Toytown" by generations of Toms, it has gone through three distinct incarnations in its lifecycle. It began as a simulation of the sort of small German town in which the British Army of the Rhine might expect to be fighting the Russians. The buildings took a corresponding amount of damage as intensive training was given in knocking holes in wales to move under cover, planting mines, booby traps and IEDs, and generally blowing things up. It became equally important to train troops in low-intensity patrolling and fighting, so it took on a more Northern Irish aspect over time. most recently, British Moslem groups objected to its makeover as a vaguely Middle Eastern town, complete with mock-mosque.

* The Literature/JamesBond novels ''Brokenclaw'' and ''Role of Honour''

* The third book of ''TheHungerGames'' trilogy features Katniss training [[spoiler: for the invasion of the Capitol]] in one of these called the Block in [[spoiler: District 13]]

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* A training place for KGB spies and saboteurs, with mock-ups of many areas of the West, is the source of the climax of ''Literature/TheBourneUltimatum''.

* ''Star Trek'' and its holodeck, which can recreate any environment, features this trope. Such as with {{Voyager}} trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.

* ''American Dad'', with Stan's job at the CIA, features this. Witty comments are graded.
* In the GalaxyRangers episode "Supertroopers," Shane was spending a lot of time in one of these, avoiding his hostile fellow Supertroopers. It was ''because'' he was spending so much time there that he avoided getting dosed with the PsychoSerum Wheiner circulated in the barracks.

* AlexRider is trained in a Scorpia SUCA in the Alex Ride book ''Scorpia''.

* The Jack Higgins novel ''Confessional'' starts with an IRA terrorist being captured during an attempt to plant a bomb. He then [[TheSpartanWay kills his captors]], only for it to be revealed he's a KGB assassin in a recreation of an Irish village.

* The JackHiggins novel ''Confessional'' starts with an IRA terrorist being captured during an attempt to plant a bomb. He then [[TheSpartanWay kills his captors]], only for it to be revealed he's a KGB assassin in a recreation of an Irish village.

* ''Star Trek'' and its holodeck, which can recreate any enviornment, features this trope. Such as with Voyager trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.

* Although it's another training place for spies, ''{{Alias}}'' features a mock-up of a US town in Russia.
* ''Star Trek'' and it's holodeck, which can recreate any enviornment, features this trope. Such as with Voyager trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.

Good place for [[TheKobayashiMaru tricking the audience]]. It can also be used for espionage training.

* The Literature/JamesBond novel ''Brokenclaw''

* AmericasArmy basically uses this for half of its maps. Now, since the players effectively make each map a warzone, there are very few civilians around. Those that are still in the area are usually hostages.

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* ''American Dad'', with Stan's job at the CIA, features this. Witty comments are graded.

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* One of the [[StarWars NJO]] novels (''Star by Star'', if this troper remembers correctly) featured a test range of this sort for the YVH-class droids. Accurate down to the "pedestrians" (actually weapons techs, who knew the droid wouldn't target them) and absolutely no challenge whatsoever for the YVH.