Gamemakers (The Hunger Games)

The Gamemakers are a group of people from the Capitol in charge of managing the Hunger Games every year. Under the observation and management of the Capitol's president, they design, control, and oversee every last aspect of the Hunger Games down to the tiniest of details. In essence their job is to make the games as frightening, bloody, and "entertaining" as possible. Success means rich rewards, failure puts the head Gammemaker's life on the line. As such, the Gamemakers spare no expense to make the Hunger Games a spectacle, and should they ever feel that the games are becoming boring, they will unleash all manner of new threats on the hapless tributes for them to overcome, ranging from beasts to forest fires to even tsunamis. They have even been known to go out of their way to have killed tributes they do not like.

Trivia

 * Oddly enough, the Gamemakers seem to have a preference for food and drink, as they are almost always depicted as drunk and gorging themselves whenever they are physically present.