Yes, I previously had only heard a small bit about Springfield as the allegorical mecca of the universe, due to the way the new system, established in the 50s or 60s, works, with all of the money funneled through Springfield, because headquarters is there, so that the people in the field are not so likely to be left stranded in some other country without receiving their funding on a regular basis. That was the only part that I had heard. I had no thought of that being the flip side of some other unrelated drama, so that is interesting.
