Government Procedural
We have met the Government Conspiracy, and it is us! The main characters are The Government (or at least the head of it) - in The White House, Whitehall, the Governor's mansion, or elsewhere. Variations range from Sitcom to Prime Time Soap with political trappings to heavy political drama Ripped from the Headlines.
Examples of Government Procedural include:
Comic Books
Film
Literature
- To a degree, Going Postal, and even more so Making Money.
Live Action TV
- Babylon 5 in its first season, before the big fantasy-influenced plot arcs got going.
- The (usually) less violent parts of Battlestar Galactica Reimagined
- Benson
- Borgen
- Commander in Chief
- Da Vincis City Hall
- Grass Roots
- The Hollowmen
- House of Cards (British series)
- House Rules
- Kings, centered around a fictional Deadly Decadent Court in a modern setting.
- The New Statesman
- No Job For A Lady
- Parks and Recreation—An odd one in that it focuses on small-town local government, with a bureaucrat as the central character—albeit a bureaucrat who is now a member of the City Council.
- Spin City
- The Thick of It
- Veep
- The West Wing
- The Wire (Partially)
- Yes Minister