Answering permit requests, recruitment threads and servicing Bounty Boards should also feature heavily,
governments generally handle this you know. libgov does it on a 2 week cycle for bounties and answers permits as they come. which is very infrequent.
in other news, theres little to no reason to put forth all of this effort for little to zero benefit of being official, especially when youre rewarded with nothing while required to put forth mandatory effort
talk about it all you want, but when official factions just became chores instead of being involved with ebb and flow of the server and the story, they stopped being relevant. the first time the devs decided to make it official that they had no value in the story besides when THEY decided they need/want the factions involvement, they lost all value and there was no reason to continue maintaining them.