Subject: Well...
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Posted on: 2013-03-19 13:43:00 UTC
I don't know about most of this - I may not be very shiny anymore, but I am still pretty new. I do know that PPC characters do NOT have to be field agents. There are loads of infrastructure departments that deal with the more 'mundane' aspects of the organization; to quote the Wiki, 'The Infrastructure Departments are those that keep the PPC running.'
Departments from this category include - but aren't limited to - the Department of Dead Author Electricity Generation (which powers the PPC by using the electricity created when dead authors roll in their graves due to badfic) and the Department of Finance (which deals with financial stuff like income, overhead, etc.)
Also, I've encountered a few stories - missions and intermissions - where there were agents or side characters running their own little shops within HQ, so there's that, too.
I wish I could've been more helpful, but that's about the extent of my knowledge here...