Washington D.C. is a location in Isaac Asimov's Robot series.
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Washington.is a major City on Earth and a center of planetary administration. It is a vast, domed, and entirely underground metropolitan complex, designed to protect its massive population from the open sky., serving as the capital regions and a center of planetary administration.
The city is noted as the workplace of Dr. Anthony Gerrigel, a prominent robotist who is summoned from there to New York by Detective Baley to provide expert analysis on R. Daneel Olivaw. The city's existence is part of the network of massive, enclosed population centers that characterize Earth's human civilization.
The city serves as the headquarters for the Earth's Justice Department, where officials like Under-Secretary Albert Minnim work. As a high-ranking official in this administrative center, he managed sensitive interstellar investigations, including assigning Elijah Baley to the Solaria case. The city exemplifies Earth's enclosed, urbanized civilization and stands in direct opposition to the Spacer worlds' philosophy of open-space living and low population density.