History Main / GovernmentProcedural

* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7493370/ Adults in the Room]]'' by Creator/CostaGavras is based on the memoirs of the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. It shows the inner workings of the left-wing Greek government and, to a much larger extent, the ''very'' difficult negotiations that government had with the European Central Bank. IMF and the German government.

* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11173308/ The Family]]'': The new, democratically elected Serbian government tries to arrest the former dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, who has barricaded himself in his villa, with most of his family and cronies. To do so, they have to rely largely on the people in the police and the military who have been appointed by Milosevic himself.

* '"Series/TheComeyRule'', a docudrama dramatizing the FBI's investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 American Presidential election.

* ''Film/{{Contagion}}'': is basically a look at how the CDC, as a government agency, would operate in the face of a supervirus. Local and federal bureaucracy occasionally becomes a problem.

* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11173308/ The Family]]'': The new, democratically elected Serbian government tries to arrest the former dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, who has barricaded himself in his villa, with most of his family and cronies. To do so, they have to rely largely on the people in the police and the military who have been appointed by the Milosevic himself.

%%* ''VideoGame/ConflictMiddleEastPoliticalSimulator''
%%* ''VideoGame/CrisisInTheKremlin''

%%* ''VideoGame/CyberNations''
%%* ''Videogame/{{Democracy}}''
%%* ''Videogame/{{Hamurabi}}''
%%* ''VideoGame/HiddenAgenda1988''
%%* ''VideoGame/NationStates''
%%* ''VideoGame/PoliticsAndWar''
%%* ''VideoGame/ShadowPresident''

* ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' shows in great detail what would the most likely response of the Japanese government to the Gojira threat would look like. [[spoiler: And the U.S. response, too...]]

* ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' shows in great detail what would the most likely response of the Japanese government to the Gojira threat look like. [[spoiler: And the U.S. response, too...]]

* ''Series/ServantOfThePeople'', a WorkCom variant about a Ukrainian high-school teacher who finds himself catapulted into the presidency. (Oddly enough, in a case of LifeImitatesArt, the show's very star, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ''himself became Ukrainian President'' later on, and as of this writing still is.)

* ''Film/AdviseAndConsent'': The U.S. Senate deals with the controversial nomination of a left-wing candidate for Secretary of Defense.

* ''Series/ServantOfThePeople'', a WorkCom variant about a Ukrainian high-school teacher who finds himself catapulted into the presidency. (Oddly enough, in RealLifeImitatesArt, the show's very star, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ''himself became Ukrainian President'' later on, and as of this writing still is.)

* ''Film/TheAmericanPresident'' combines this with a RomanticComedy.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'', protagonists are government attorneys.

%%* ''Series/{{Benson}}''

* ''Series/YesMinister'' (and its sequel, ''Series/YesPrimeMinister''), a sitcom about the British government and civil service.

We have met the GovernmentConspiracy, and it is us! The main characters ''are'' TheGovernment (or at least part of it) - in TheWhiteHouse, UsefulNotes/{{Whitehall}}, the Governor's mansion, a CovertGroup, or bureaucrats elsewhere. Variations range from SitCom to PrimeTimeSoap with political trappings to topical RippedFromTheHeadlines drama.

A LawProcedural with government attorneys as the main protagonists is a subgenre. See SpyDrama for espionage themed stuff. See also PoliceProcedural and CopShow for law enforcement portrayals.

We have met the GovernmentConspiracy, and it is us! The main characters ''are'' TheGovernment (or at least part of it) - in TheWhiteHouse, {{Whitehall}}, the Governor's mansion, a CovertGroup, or bureaucrats elsewhere. Variations range from SitCom to PrimeTimeSoap with political trappings to topical RippedFromTheHeadlines drama.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': As with its counterpart ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire,'' above. Yes, it's a [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy fantasy]]. Which spends an awful lot of time painstakingly demonstrating why living in a land (mis)governed like the [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Seven Kingdoms]] currently is being... is a little too "interesting" for comfort. Saying you're watching it for the politics is actually believable in this instance.

* ''Series/{{Kings}}'', centered around a fictional DeadlyDecadentCourt in a modern setting.

* ''Manga/KajiRyuusukeNoGi'' is one of the few pieces of Japanese fiction that has a grounded take on this genre. It focuses on a salaryman following the dying wishes of his brother, which is to follow the footsteps of their dead father and go into politics.

* ''Manga/KajiRyuusukeNoGi'' is one of the few pieces of Japanese fiction that has a grounded take on this genre and focuses on a salaryman following the dying wishes of his brother to follow the footsteps of their dead father and go into politics.

* ''Manga/KajiRyuusukeNoGi'' is one of the few pieces of Japanese fiction that has a grounded take on this genre and focuses on a salaryman following the dying wishes of his politician father to take his place and go into politics.

* In ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''[=/=]''Franchise/{{Halo}}'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, there's a PlotThread dealing with issues in the Home Galaxy Senate--mainly, an agency looking increasingly like StateSec is pushing the boundaries of [[ForScience acceptable experimentation]] while consolidating more and more power. A [[BadassBureaucrat Senator]] is trying to at least shine a light in, though so far there hasn't been much in the way of results.