Institute for Fictional Civilizations · Est. MMXXVI
The study of civilizations that never existed.
Games, novels, films and myths are our field sites. Their societies, faiths, ecologies and collapses are our subject.
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Featured ExcavationNº 0036
Excavation Nº 0036 · Anthropology
The Bureau That Turned the Impossible Into Procedure
In Control, a secret federal agency files the supernatural under forms, sectors and containment rules. An excavation of the Federal Bureau of Control.
- World
- The Oldest House, Control
- Period
- The present day (in-world)
- Status
- Active
The Departments
Seven ways of reading an imagined world.
Every Excavation is filed in one of the Institute's departments. Open a drawer to see what it holds.
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The Institute's thesis
Fiction is not escapism.
Humanity keeps imagining other civilizations. The Institute studies what they reveal about power, belief, survival and ourselves.
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