List of fictional institutions

• List of fictional espionage organizations
• List of fictional gangs
• List of fictional law firms
• List of fictional political parties
• List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations

  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
• Eichen House - Teen Wolf
• 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 - '
• Somafree Institute - The Brood
• Verrückt - '
• Rutledge Asylum - American McGee's Alice /

  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 - ER
• Community General Hospital, Los Angeles, California - '
• Eastman Medical Center, Los Angeles, California - Doogie Howser, M.D.
• 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.
• 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 '
• 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. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries -- Harry Potter
• 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
• 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 - 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 -
• NorBAC - "ReGenesis"
• The D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative-"Lost'
• International Genetics -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 - '
• NEST - '
• Sector Seven - Transformers
• S.H.I.E.L.D. - Marvel Comics
• Starfleet - Star Trek
• Stargate Command - in Stargate SG-1
• S.T.R.I.K.E. - Marvel UK
• UNATCO - Deus Ex video game and sequel,
• UNSC - in Halo
• 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

  Espionage/spy agencies

• Bureau of Sabotage - The Dosadi Experiment
• Cable Street Particulars - Discworld
• CISO - Captain Canuck comic book series
• CONTROL - Get Smart
• CTU -
• 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, 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. - 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 - Hellboy
• Cable Street Particulars - Discworld
• Celestial Intervention Agency - Doctor Who
• MiB - Men in Black
• Ministry of Information, especially the Department of Information Retrieval - Brazil
• The Torchwood Institute - Doctor Who and Torchwood
• UNIT - Doctor Who
• Angel Investigations - "Angel"
• SCP Foundation

• Administrative departments

• Department of Administrative Affairs - Yes Minister
• Department H - Marvel Comics
• Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship - The Thick of It
• Ministry of Magic - 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
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• 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
• M.F.P. - 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
• Central Police Line of Duty

  Paramilitary, rebel, and rogue military groups

Terrorist/criminal organizations

• Akatsuki - Naruto
• The Alliance of Twelve - Alias
• Black Sun - Star Wars
• Brotherhood of Evil Mutants - X-Men
• KAOS - Get Smart
• Cobra - '
• Confederacy Of Independent Systems - Star Wars
• Foot Clan - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Galactic Empire - Star Wars
• Shadoloo - Street Fighter
• F.O.W.L. - Darkwing Duck
• Intergang - Superman
• International Contract Agency - Hitman videogame series.
• ManDes - Ultra-right-wing terrorist group in Northguard comic book
• NSF - Deus Ex and its sequel, '
• The Hand - Marvel Comics
• S.C.Y.T.H.E. - DC Comics
• Shocker - Kamen Rider
• SPECTRE - 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 - anti-cartoon violence organization, The Simpsons
• S.P.E.W. - 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 - Gundam Seed
• League of the 20,000 Planets - Lexx

  Political parties

Social

Chivalric, brotherly, and secret orders

• 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 now holds youth events called

  Charitable or rescue organizations

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

  Religious charities and foundations

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 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 - 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 - Scanners
• Torchwood Institute - Doctor Who and Torchwood

  Unions and professional organisations

• F.I.S.T. 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
• Nelson Institute of Marine Research - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 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" / "Thunderbirds Are Go" / "Thunderbird 6" / "Thunderbirds Are Go!"
• Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality - The West Wing''