Fictional Organization Type

A corporation is a legal entity (technically, a juristic person) which has a legal personality distinct from those of its members. The defining legal rights and obligations of a corporation consist of the capacities (i) to sue and to be sued, (ii) to have assets, ...

Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentility, but is not nobility. In the High and Late Middle Ages, the principal duty of a knight was to fight as, and...

Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminal, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. The Organized Crime Control Act (U.S., 1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities of ... a highly organized...

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban neighbourhood, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York...

A federal republic is a federation of state with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain all political sovereignty that they do not yield to the federation. Usage of the term republic is...

A federation (Latin: foedus, covenant) is a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central ("federal") government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states is typically constitutionally entrenched...

An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.. Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's...

The Vatican Secret Archives (Latin: Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum), located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. These archive also contain the state paper, correspondence, papal account books, and many...

In the Harry Potter series, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. The houses compete throughout the school year, by...

A ministry is a department of a government, led by a minister. Ministries are usually subordinate to the cabinet, and prime minister, president or chancellor. A government will usually have numerous ministries, each with a specialised field of service. National...

In many countries, vital events (eg. birth, death, and marriage) are required by law to be formally recorded in registers maintained by government officials. In the United Kingdom, mandatory civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths was first introduced in...

The armed forces of a state are its government-sponsored defense and fighting forces and organizations used to further the objectives of the state. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body. In some countries paramilitary forces...

Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies. In the United States, a company is "a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on a commercial or industrial enterprise." Generally, a...

A clan-based association of nobles.