There are many, many departments in the PPC, split into Action, Infrastructure and Security. Some of them have divisions. Some have been shut down or merged with others.
This is a non-exhaustive (but quite exhausting) list of departments. Any known non-fandom divisions, or divisions with their own heads, are listed with their departments. The list shows the name of the department/division, its abbreviation, the head of department/division, and the flash patch emblem. Following the style of heraldry, adjectives and nouns in the emblem descriptions are capitalized. All emblems are on a field of black unless otherwise specified. Any item with a question mark next to it indicates a suggestion which is not yet official.
Action Departments[]
- Name - Abbreviation - Head(s) - Flash Patch
- All-Purpose Department - APD - The Foxglove Official - A Rubber Swiss Army Knife
- Bad Role-play Department - BRD - The Daffodil - A Black Swift
- Bad Quizzes Division - BQD - The Really Big Monkey Puzzle Tree - A Pencil-in-the-Eye
- Department of Angst - DOA - The Aloe Vera - A Pink Balloon-animal Poodle
- Department of Bad Parody - DBP - Admiral Pansy - A Headless Rubber Chicken
- Troll Division - TD - Admiral Pansy - The DBP Rubber Chicken surmounted by "T-D" in Bright Red
- Department of Bad Slash - DBS - The Queen Anne's Lace - A Three-Eyed Rubber Duck
- Division of Bad Het - DBH - The Gladiolus - An Upside-Down Three-Eyed Rubber Duck
- Division of Mpreg - DMP - The Male Ginkgo - A Mandrake Root
- Department of Character Protective Services - DCPS - The Asphodel - A Golden Shield
- Department of Floaters - DF/Floaters - The Floating Hyacinth - A Waterlily
- Division of Cool and Unusual Punishment - DCUP - The Sadistic Bladderwrack - A Bladderwrack Frond
- Eclectic Subdivision of Advanced Species - ESAS - The Strangler Fig - A Star above a Waterlily
- Special Interdepartmental Elven Languages Unit - SIELU - The Poison Ivy - Sindarin Text for Wisdom
- Special Operations Division - SOD - The Bonsai Monkey Puzzle Tree - The DF Patch surmounted by a Fancy Ampersand in Dark Red
- Department of Geographical Aberrations - DOGA - The Bonsai Mallorn - A Stylised Flame
- Department of Implausible Crossovers - DIC - The Lichen - A Flying Pig
- Department of Improbable AUs - DIAU - The Antigravity Apple - A Rubin Vase
- Department of Improbabilities - DI - The Reannual - A Dead Parakeet on its Back
- Department of Mary Sues - DMS - The Sunflower Official - A Potted Cactus
- Division of Multiple Offenses - DMO - The Cattail - A Dish with a Spoon in it
- Department of Misplaced Flora and Fauna - DMFF - The Waterlily Commander - An Urple Sheep
- Department of Out of Character Hobbits - DOOCH - The Authoritative Elanor - ???
- Department of Plagiarism - DP - The Venus Fly Trap - ???
- Department of Redundancy Department - DRD - The Coriander - A White Staff bearing the Note E
- Department of Technical Errors - DTE - The Uncommon Comma - A Red Pen
- Department of Temporal Offenses - DTO - The Toffee Tree - A Battered Alarm Clock with the Springs sticking out
- Historical Inaccuracies Division - HID - The Strawflower - ???
- Timeline Distortions Division - TDD - ??? - ???
- Department of WhatThe - DW - The Snowthorn - A Stylised Mountain with Red Peak
- Despatch - N/A - The Hydrangea - A Lightning Bolt
- Disturbing Acts of Violence Department - DAVD - The Big Thorn - ???
- DAVD Intelligence - DAVD(i) - The Elder Evil Tree - ???
- DAVD Medical - DAVD(m) The Spirit Tree - ???
- Repetitive Department of Repetition - RDR - The Cilantro - A White Staff bearing the Note F-flat
Infrastructure Departments[]
- Name - Abbreviation - Head(s) - Flash Patch
- Department of Analytical Science - DAS - The Thistle and the Flowering Leek - A
WatermelonBurdened Ant- Alternate and Wrecked Archaeology Younit - DAS-AWAY - The Thistle - A Weaver Ant
- Division of Applied-and-theoretical Multiversal Physics - DAS-DAMP - The Flowering Leek - A Ghost Ant
- Division Entirely Full of Stars(E) - DAS-DEFUSE - The Flowering Leek - A Flying Ant
- Division of Irrational Geology - DAS-DIG - The Flowering Leek - A Desert Ant
- Materials Assessment Division - DAS-MAD - The Flowering Leek - An Army Ant
- Squishy Experiments and Evidence Division - DAS-SQUEE - The Thistle - A Leafcutter Ant
- Suvian and Wraith Experiments and Research - DAS-SWEAR - The Thistle - A Honeypot Ant
- Volatile Organics/Inorganics Division - DAS-VOID - The Flowering Leek - A Fire Ant
- Department of Dead Author Electricity Generation - DoDAEG - The Slaver Sunflower - On Silver, an Inverted Tombstone
- Department of Fictional Psychology - FicPsych - The Kudzu Vine and Doctor Freedenberg - On White, Five Exclamation Marks
- Department of Finance - DoF - The Clover - An Evermind Flower
- Department of Intelligence - DoI - The Sub Rosa - A Purple Sage Frond
- Department of Operations - DO - The Nightshade - A Quail
- Building Maintenance - BM - ??? - The Operations Quail surmounted by a Claw Hammer with a Red Handle
- Cafeteria services - N/A - ??? - An Orange Pore Fungus
- Janitorial Division - N/A - The Onion Grass - The Operations Quail surmounted by a Flaming Broomstick
- The Nursery - N/A - ??? - ???
- Department of Personnel - DoP - The Marquis de Sod - A Flaming Stick Figure wearing a Bowler Hat
- PPC Archives - N/A - ??? - ???
- Agent Training - N/A - ??? - ???
- Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology - DoSAT - Hornbeam the Ironwood - A Smoking Swivel Chair
- A/V Division - A/V - The Rose of Sharon - The DoSAT Chair surmounted by "AV" in Red
- Testing & Applications Division - T&A - The Fireweed - A Stylized Explosion
- Biotic Materials Division - BMD - ??? - ???
- Legal Department - LD/Legal - The Fern - The Legal Chao
- Arbitrary Censorship Division - LD(c) - ??? - ???
- Canon Laws Division - LD(l) - ??? - ???
- Cosmic Irony Division - LD(i) - ??? - ???
- Physics Division - LD(p) - ??? - ???
- Trans-Normal Accountancy Division - LD(a) - ??? - ???
- Medical Department - Medical - Doctor Fitzgerald - A Green Armband
- Medical Research Division - MRD - The Echinacea - A Brown Guinea Pig
- Emergency Division - ED - ??? - ???
- Veterinary Ward - VW - ??? - ???
- Postal Department - PD/Postal - Otik Horak - A Smoking Parcel
- Non-Propaganda Communications Division - NPCD - The Shallot - A Tea Stain
Security Departments[]
- Name - Abbreviation - Head(s) - Flash Patch
- Department of External Security - DES - Captain Dandy - An Ivy-Coated White Fence
- Department of Internal Affairs - DIA - The Tiger Lily - None
Defunct Departments[]
- Name - Abbreviation - Head(s) - Flash Patch
- Reason for discontinuation.
- Admin Department - Admin - The Marquis de Sod - ???
- Functions split off to form the various Infrastructure Departments; eventually renamed the Department of Personnel.
- Audio/Visual Department - A/V - The Rose of Sharon - ???
- Department for Elf Protection - DEP - Audrey the Ninth - An Alfirin Flower
- Merged with the Department of Character Protective Services.
- Department of Action - Action - Captain Dandy, later the Poppy - ???
- Department of Author Correction - DAC - ??? - ???
- Department of Author Correspondence - DAC - The Saffron Crocus - An Elm Tree
- Closed down with the retirement of the final agent.
- Department of Clichéd Humor - DCH - The (not-yet-sadistic) Bladderwrack - Among others: White Text saying "[Insert Badge Here]"; White Text saying "404 Error, Badge Not Found"; Very Small White Text saying "I joined the Protectors of the Plot Continuum and all I got was this lousy flash patch."
- Shut down in 1998, because within half a year every one of its agents was driven irretrievably insane.[2]
- Department of Culture - DOC - Madame Orchid - ???
- Merged with the DMS, Phantom of the Opera Division.
- Department of Emergencies - DE - The Firethorn - A Red Bell
- Merged with the Special Sue Unit to become the Special Operations Division of Floaters.
- Department of Exploration - Exploration - Captain Dandy - ???
- Restructured as the Department of Action.
- Department of Godplayers - DOG - The Catnip - A Cat's Head
- Merged with the DMS.
- Department of Health and Safety - DHS - ??? - ???
- Department of Infrastructure - Infrastructure - Hornbeam - ???
- Broken up into numerous Infrastructure departments.
- Department of Internal Operations - DIO - The Elm - A Cactus, being Stabbed by a Knife
- Shut down for being too dangerous after an agent of theirs went on a rampage.
- Department of Internal Security - DIS - The Bracket Fungus - On a Silver Sash, a Crouching Black Cat (also a shoulder badge)
- Shut down for trying to destroy the PPC.
- Department of Mary Sue Experiments and Research - DMSE&R - The Thistle - A Test Tube holding a Smoking Green Liquid
- Merged with the Division of Applied-and-theoretical Multiversal Physics to form the Department of Analytical Science in 2017.
- Department of Multiple Offenses - DMO - The Cattail - A Dish with a Spoon in it
- Shut down for lack of purpose. A division of the same name was opened in the DMS.
- Department of Plot Contrivances - DPC - Sir Begonia de Window-Potts[4]
- As reported in the Multiverse Monitor, this department never existed; it was a figment of Agent P.Q. Shambutter's imagination.[4] Before it vanished in a puff of disbelief in 2006, its job was supposedly to destroy Deus ex Machina devices such as teleportation rings.[4]
- Department of Psychological Services - DPS - The Geranium(?) - ???
- Merged with FicPsych.
- Department of Public Relations - PR - ??? - ???
- Department of Rampant Sexism - DRS - The Shrinking Violet - A Broken Heart
- Department of Stereotype - DS - ??? - ???
- Shut down due to lack of purpose.
- Department of Wilful Ignorance - DUI - The Ivy - A Sadistic Bow-Tie
- Real People Fic Department - RPFD - ??? - ???
- Special Sue Unit - SSU - ??? - ???
- Merged with the Department of Emergencies to become the Special Operations Division of Floaters.
- Wrecked Music Department - WMD - The Inverted Cactus - A Fibonacci Spiral
- Shut down in 2003 due to the need for agents on LotR and HP duty.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Real World" by Evil Bob, Jun 30, 2004
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Ephemerals" by Huinesoron, May 1, 2014
- ↑ "Origins: Chapter 7" by Huinesoron
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Department of Plot Contrivances Revealed to Be Figment of Agent's Imagination" by Meir Brin, March 2006
- ↑ "A Taste of Blood" by Jay and Deepy, June 15, 2003