ATLAS

ATLAS is a coalition of international intelligence organisations, which oversees spies and villains across the globe and cleans up the damage left by them. It is currently backed by groups such as the Five Eyes and Five Guys. Its cover is HQ, a British espionage organisation intentionally designed to be incompetent.

Part of ATLAS' funding comes from the British government, with the front of the £6 billion budget going to HQ, with yet another front of HQ being officially titled 'dry cleaning'.

ATLAS actually began as a secret cult, founded in 25 A.D. for unclear reasons. However, it eventually rebranded but remained its secrecy." Due to massive revisions to the first Brick Brannigan novel, the following information is non-canon! "In the original draft of The doctor who said no, ATLAS was known as the Villains Organisation Registry Exchange, or simply VORE.

HQ has a fairly one-sided rivalry with VORE, presenting them as nefarious to the students of spy school.

As part of the Exchange's logging of espionage activities, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet was made detailing the list of the 25 islands occupied by relatively minor villains, which was found on a USB drive by HQ after it was left at their base of operations, the dry cleaners. Mistakenly believing it to associate VORE with these villains, HQ dispatched Brick Brannigan to take them out.