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 in italics with their departments.
Action Departments
- All-Purpose Department - The Foxglove Official
- Bad Role-play Department - The Daffodil
- Bad Quizzes Division - The Really Big Monkey Puzzle Tree
- Department of Angst - The Aloe Vera
- Department of Bad Parody - Admiral Pansy
- Department of Bad Slash - The Queen Anne's Lace
- Division of Bad Het - The Gladiolus
- Division of Mpreg - The Male Ginkgo
- Department of Character Protective Services - The Asphodel
- Department of Floaters - The Floating Hyacinth
- Department of Geographical Aberrations - The Bonsai Mallorn
- Department of Implausible Crossovers - The Lichen
- Department of Improbable AUs - The Antigravity Apple
- Department of Improbabilities - The Reannual
- Department of Mary Sues - The Sunflower Official
- Department of Misplaced Flora and Fauna - The Waterlily Commander
- Department of Out of Character Hobbits - The Authoritative Elanor
- Department of Plagiarism - The Venus Fly Trap
- Department of Redundancy Department - The Coriander
- Department of Technical Errors - The Uncommon Comma
- Department of Temporal Offenses - The Toffee Tree
- Historical Inaccuracies Division - The Strawflower
- Timeline Distortions Division
- Department of WhatThe - The Snowthorn
- Despatch - The Hydrangea
- Disturbing Acts of Violence Department - The Big Thorn
- DAVD Intelligence - The Elder Evil Tree
- DAVD Medical - The Spirit Tree
- Repetitive Department of Repetition - The Cilantro
Infrastructure Departments
- Department of Dead Author Electricity Generation - The Slaver Sunflower
- Department of Fictional Psychology - The Kudzu Vine
- Department of Finance - The Clover
- Department of Intelligence - The Sub Rosa
- Department of Mary Sue Experiments and Research - The Thistle
- Department of Operations - The Nightshade
- Building Maintenance
- Cafeteria services
- Janitorial services - The Onion Grass
- The Nursery
- Department of Personnel - The Marquis de Sod
- Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology - Hornbeam the Ironwood
- A/V Division - The Rose of Sharon
- Testing & Applications Division - The Fireweed
- Biotic Materials Division
- Legal Department - The Fern
- Physics Division
- Trans-Normal Accountancy Division
- Canon Laws Division
- Arbitrary Censorship Division
- Cosmic Irony Division
- Medical Department - Doctor Fitzgerald
- Medical Research Division - The Echinacea
- Emergency Division
- Veterinary Ward
- Postal Department - Otik Horak
Security Departments
Discontinued Departments
- Admin Department - The Marquis de Sod — Functions split off to form the various Infrastructure Departments; eventually renamed the Department of Personnel.
- Audio/Visual Department - The Rose of Sharon — Reassigned as a division of DoSAT.
- Department of Action - Captain Dandy, later the Poppy — Broken apart into the DIC, DMS, and DBS.
- Department of Author Correspondence - The Saffron Crocus — Closed down with the retirement of the final agent.
- Department of Clichéd Humor — Shut down for unknown reasons.
- Department of Culture - Madame Orchid — Merged with the DMS, Phantom of the Opera Division.
- Department for Elf Protection - Audrey the Ninth — Merged with the Department of Character Protective Services.
- Department of Exploration - Captain Dandy — Restructured as the Department of Action.
- Department of Godplayers — Merged with the DMS.
- Department of Health and Safety — Short-lived, apparently responsible for the blue doorway visual of PPC portals. Shut down after 'that unfortunate incident with the bees'.[1]
- Department of Infrastructure - Hornbeam — Broken up into numerous Infrastructure departments.
- Department of Internal Operations - The Elm — Shut down for being too dangerous after an agent of theirs went on a rampage.
- Department of Internal Security - The Bracket Fungus — Shut down for trying to destroy the PPC.
- Department of Multiple Offenses - The Cattail — Shut down for lack of purpose. A division of the same name was opened in the DMS.
- Department of Psychological Services — Merged with FicPsych.
- Department of Stereotype — Shut down due to lack of purpose.
- Real People Fic Department — Presumed merged with the DCPS. Its only known agent was Dee.
- Special Sue Unit — Merged with the Special Operations Division, Department of Floaters.