ACME and V.I.L.E.

The ACME Detective Agency (ACME Crimenet) and V.I.L.E. are two fictional organizations central to the premise of the Carmen Sandiego series. Within the series, ACME is a vaguely defined worldwide organization that devotes most or all of its resources to thwarting V.I.L.E., a criminal organization of comparable size. Carmen Sandiego is the leader of V.I.L.E. and the archvillain of the franchise.
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