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It's a city. Of spies. It might even be that the number of posted spies are equivalent to, or even outmatches the numbers of regular citizens, potentially creating a Flock of Wolves situation. Taken to its logical conclusion, is not unlikely that most of the spies have ended up Going Native to some degree or another, because who else would be around to actually maintain the city and making sure that goods and services are still flowing otherwise? These locations tend to occur in multi-polar 'verses (that is, with two or more power blocs) and are either neutral locations or the capital cities of the powers themselves. If all the world's spies seem to work in the city a Spy Drama is set in, it's a City of Adventure. See also the Truce Zone, which is very often one of these. For when a group consists entirely of people who are meant to be infiltrating it, see Flock of Wolves. Its vast number of spies might also be because a Decadent Court has set up shop here. For the Superhero equivalent, see Superhero Capital of the World. |
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Post-war Vienna is a hotbed of intrigue (and zither music) in The Third Man. | |
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In Wonder Woman (1942), Diana, Steve and Etta can't go anywhere in Washington DC without running into someone doing espionage work for the Axis powers. | |
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One of the Marvelman/Miracleman comics ("Spy Story", #21 of the revived series, 1991, by Neil Gaiman) is about a woman living in a city of spies. It turns out that all the members of the intelligence agencies of the world who couldn't adjust to the Utopia were put into one big city to intrigue their little hearts out. | |
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Academy City from A Certain Magical Index. | |
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Chuck: In the episode "Chuck Versus the Suburbs", Chuck and Sarah go undercover in the suburb of Meadow Branch to find a Fulcrum agent. Later in the episode, it is revealed that the entire cul-de-sac is actually a front for Fulcrum, which is trying to build their own intersect. | |
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Boktor (capital of Drasnia) and Mal Zeth (capital of the Mallorean Empire) in The Belgariad. Drasnia tops it all, being a country of spies. Spies are its chief export (that and reindeer). | |
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies: OSS 117 indeed bumps into a variety of spies in Cairo (Soviets, British, separate Egyptian factions, a goofy Belgian spy and even a hidden group of the Nazis), most likely due to the Suez Canal crisis and Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency at the epicenter of pan-Arabism. | |
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Every player character in Paranoia is required to be a member of at least one secret society, and most NPCs are part of one as well. Given that the characters are supposed to be hunting down secret society members, this can get ugly. | |
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Eberron goes a step further and has an entire country of spies — Zilargo, especially its capital of Trolanport. It's also the homeland of the gnomes. Adventurers in Zilargo are well advised to Beware the Nice Ones, as Zilargo boasts the most terrifyingly capable secret police force in the setting. It's not that everyone is watching you that you should be worried about — it's when everyone stops watching you that you should really worry. | |
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Discussed in the Full Metal Panic! novels when revealing where Mithril had the administrative headquarters for their Pacific operations. They chose Sydney, Australia as its large enough that they can blend by pretending to be the regional headquarters of a multi-national corporation and geographically isolated enough that it's not a natural crossroads attracting a lot of attention. | |
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In Discworld, Ankh-Morpork is certainly implied to be one, but there's not a lot of focus on the spies themselves. It's just taken for granted that news will make it back to Lord Vetinari. At one point he's seen reading the report from the Thieves' Guild inner inner council. Amusingly, Glenda, the protagonist of Unseen Academicals (who really is just a cook), is mistaken for a spy because of thisnote She does do some spying, that's not her being a spy, just a well-intentioned busybody — Ridcully says that Vetinari is the largest employer in the city, and he wishes he knew exactly who he was employing. | |
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Planescape has Sigil, City of Doors, which is a city of spies because it contains portals to every plane in the multiverse and is, therefore, the most strategically important location imaginable. Legions of ideological/philosophical or political factions, religious groups, business empires, crime syndicates, and both sides in the Blood War have agents here. | |
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Bothawui and the other Bothan-colonized worlds (especially Kothlis, home of the cell of Bothan spies who are mentioned in Return of the Jedi) in the Star Wars Legends are planets of spies. Also Playful Hackers, backbiting status-obsessed politicians, and incredibly brave honor-bound people. With plenty of overlap between these categories. Bothans wear many Hats. | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic, Manaan in some ways has this role in its nature as an extremely valuable world that maintains neutrality. While both the Republic and Sith have embassies on the world, neither are allowed to carry weapons on the streets and are both extremely limited and forced to combat by proxy. In addition, the trial of Sunry, where both he and his victim were being manipulated by the Republic and Sith, is an example of the types of manipulation that go on. The way in which the Republic builds a secret base with the approval of elements of the Selkath rulers also fits into this type of system. | |
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Berlint in Spy X Family, as the capital of Ostania, naturally has a fair number of spies and counterintelligence agents (plus Yor's assassin organization). However, it's the only city we've seen so far. | |
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Columbia in Crimson Skies. | |
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The AI in Civilization V will almost always plant its spies in the city with the highest espionage potential (because they can steal technologies from it faster), which is based on science output per turn and therefore almost certainly a/the player's capital, especially in single-player. Place one counterspy in your capital and watch him rapidly level up to Special Agent by killing spies from around the world every few turns as world leader after world leader crawls to you, embarrassed and begging for forgiveness. | |
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Starting with The Illustrated Star Wars Universe Legends texts frequently portray Mos Eisley spaceport as a rat's nest of professional and amateur spies, all hoping to see something valuable that can be sold - either to Jabba the Hutt, Lady Valarian, or Imperial Prefect Talmont. Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina features the Devish fugitive Labria eking out a pathetic living as Jabba's least favourite spy, while more talented spies like Garindian prefer to work freelance and set their own prices. | |
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The Americans, set in Washington DC during The '80s and featuring KGB spies as protagonists, makes use of this trope, showing how the KGB operates out of the Soviet embassy with impunity. | |
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Depicted as a nearly literal City of Spies in From Russia with Love. | |
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Roanapur, in Black Lagoon, has a fair number of spies running around in addition to all the criminals. | |
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Atomic Blonde takes place in Berlin near the very end of the Cold War when the Wall is about to fall in November 1989, so naturally, the city is full of spies from both the NATO nations (chiefly USA, UK and France) and the Soviet Union. | |
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Krakow in Twilight: 2000. | |
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Escape Velocity Override has two separate things that fit this in different ways. One is Pax Station, which as pretty much the sole place in which in the United Earth-Voinian Empire peace treaty meaningfully exists is a centre of intrigue, from Voinians hiring human mercenaries to UE agents retrieving Voinian defectors. The other is the entire Igadzra culture — all three of the Strands have a thing as a deliberate policy, and the Igadzra thing is something like devious paranoia. This both means that Igadzra tends to spy on other Igadzra and has led to the Igadzra having the most sophisticated and extensive intelligence agencies and clandestine scheming amongst the Strands. | |
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In Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, there's the Nilfgaard Empire. The most popular jobs in the Nilfgaardian empire are Spy, Assassin, and Courtesan. It's heavily implied that there is a major overlap between all three jobs. | |
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The planet Arden in Traveller. | |
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Lampshaded in all conceivable versions of Casino Royale by Bond girl Vesper Lynd (a pun on 'West Berlin'). | |
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King's Landing in A Song of Ice and Fire, though to a lesser extent than some of the other examples on this page, does have a large number of spies for different factions. Although they don't figure into the War of the Five Kings much, supplementary materials indicate that Braavos and Volantis (as well as the other Free Cities) have in the past served in this role. Essentially, anywhere Varys' influence extends could count as such, thanks to his network of "little birds". | |
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Syndicate Rychart in Star Traders: Frontiers is an entire faction that focuses on spying and subterfuge. A common saying goes: "Never bargain with a Rychart in the dark." | |
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Pottsylvania from Rocky and Bullwinkle is shown to be a whole country of spies in the few times it is shown. | |
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In Wonder Woman (1975), Washington, D.C. is a den of spies. From Steve Trevor's first secretary (who Wonder Woman personally knocks out to take her job) to Baroness von Gunther to spies posing as Treasury Department managers, the first season has so many spies that there must have been a shortage of both housing and abandoned warehouses. | |
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Game of Thrones: King's Landing is rife with spies for various members of the Decadent Court. In one scene, Littlefinger is polite enough to point out several of them, including his own. At the time of House of the Dragon, both Mysaria (a.k.a. the "White Worm") and Larys Strong have networks of informants in King's Landing. |
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At the time of House of the Dragon, both Mysaria (a.k.a. the "White Worm") and Larys Strong have networks of informants in King's Landing. | |
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Hence Casablanca. | |
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The city of Crossbell from the Trails Series edges into this, given that it’s located directly between the continents two major superpowers, the Erebonian Empire and Republic of Calvard, and is divided between factions that support Erebonia, Calvard or advocate for Crossbell to be independent of the two. Agents from both countries are also active in the background, along with Wazy and Abbas keeping tabs on things for the Septian Church, and later Ries keeping tabs on the Church. During Azures’s final chapter, it's possible to find out that Reins, a reporter at the Crossbell News Service, is actually an employee of R&A Research, meaning the Kingdom of Liberl is spying on Crossbell too. | |
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The eponymous city in Fallen London qualifies. The Great Game has its players nearly everywhere in London, including the Admiralty, and the district of Wilmot's End may as well be the “District of Spies� since just about everyone you’ll meet there is one of them. | |
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The Village in The Prisoner (1967). All the inhabitants are forcibly retired spies. Presumably. Possibly. Maybe. | |
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In Demon: The Descent, any city with a huge Unchained presence quickly becomes a city of spies. The demons must constantly stay one step ahead of the God-Machine, unraveling its plans through moves and countermoves. Most demons organize themselves in small Rings, and many cities have Agencies that can offer demons resources, be they cash, safehouses, or host bodies. | |
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If you were to believe Burn Notice, Miami is full of spies and retired spies. Then again, the city attracts a lot of retiring people and is pretty close to Cuba. And it doesn't hurt that Florida doesn't have a state income tax, which makes it a popular place for mobile people to have as a residence. | |
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Grantville in 1632 becomes this in later books, as everyone and his mother wants to get their hands on up-time technology. Subverted in that the spying is done fairly openly - most of the information they want is public knowledge, and the Americans don't actually care that much. Adding to the mix is that Grantville still has a functioning (if limited) Internet, which offers a very secure way for the aforementioned spies to swap information with one another. From the same series of books venice, is also bad enough that one character wonders about advertising to ninjas as a working vacation. | |
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Babylon 5: The Babylon 5 Space Station itself is a massive nest of intrigue, mostly because it's the only neutral port around and between the major powers. Being the hub of diplomats means it attracts the dark side of diplomacy, spying. Notably, when the Interstellar Alliance relocates its headquarters to Minbar at the end of season 5, the chief of the ISA's covert intelligence division chooses to remain stationed on Babylon 5. | |
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Doctor Who New Adventures: In Death and Diplomacy, spying, deception and intrigue are the Hat of the Saloi, to the point that every Saloi is secretly spying on not only their two enemy cultures, but every other Saloi. (Except it's not a secret, because everybody knows that, so maybe that's just what they want people to think, and so on...) | |
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