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* The Wildfire facility in ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]''. The only entrance is the elevator shed, and the facility topside ''is'' what it's disguised as - a wheat modifying facility.
* Willy Wonka's crazy factory in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' is mostly underground. The book contains an explicit explanation of this by Wonka, where he tells everyone that he decided to expand his factory by tunnelling downward and outward so that he could basically expand indefinitely without ever having to buy any more land or pay any rent to the property owners most of his factory is under. This would, of course, be all kinds of illegal in real life, but Wonka doesn't care.
* A similar rationale obtains for the enormous set of underground tunnels built by the deep-down dwarfs in Ankh-Morpork in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. By digging under the city, they can create their own dwarfs-only authentic dwarf mine under the city, unbeholden to city law or city rents. After the events of the book ''[[Thud!]]'', the deep-downers are thoroughly discredited and Lord Vetinari appropriates their delve for the city government. (It is heavily implied that these tunnels will form the basis of a future Ankh-Morpork subway system.)
** And the dwarfs have better legal standing than Wonka, considering that on parts of the Disc that dwarfs normally live, such as the Ramtops and Überwald, dwarf-law does cover the underground and is entirely separate from surface law. This just isn't true on the Sto Plains.
** The bulk of Dwarf civilization away from Ankh-Morpork is also mostly underground. There are huge cities.
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