The novel is about a country that gets so good at process it stops being able to say who decided. The business exists because organizations fail at execution long before anyone notices. The commissions were six years of watching public institutions work from the inside.
Running for office is the same question asked in the most exposed way available: what does it actually take to make an institution answerable to the people inside it?
I don't think these are five careers. I think they're one question I haven't finished with.