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 0022
Excavation Nº 0022 · Anthropology
The People Who Outlived the Bomb
Sterile, ageless and shunned, Fallout's ghouls are a nation with no second generation. An anthropology of the people who outlived the bomb.
- World
- The Wasteland, Fallout
- Period
- 2077 to 2296 (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.
The Register
Recent excavations
0022The People Who Outlived the BombAnthropologyFallout● Active0021The Genealogy of the DragonObservatoryMany Worlds● Active0020The Last Days of AnthemAnthropologyAnthem○ Extinct0019The Civilization Beneath Every CivilizationMythosphereMany Worlds● Active0018The Living Gods of MorrowindReligionsMorrowind○ Extinct0017The Builders of Fallout LondonHuman ArchiveFallout London● Active
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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