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.

Comic Books

 * Ex Machina
 * Quai d'Orsay

Film

 * In the Loop

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
 * 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
 * Yes Prime Minister