Last night I had this weird dream were I was playing a Roguelike called Aynrand (Angband). It was this dungeon crawler based pretty much on Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged". It was set in the 1950s eras, where you could pick from various classes of suit-wearing, cigar-puffing, (Penguin-like) business tycoons wandering through randomly generated city streets and industrial settings beating down poor factory workers and picking up stacks of dollar bills instead of gold.
I swear I'm not making this up. Don't ask me how this crept into my subconscious, I don't know. I've never even read Atlas Shrugged but the basic premise is a 1950s society where the government is waging war on the poor business elite of the world by taxing and regulating them. To fight back, a group of CEOs go on strike and refuse to share their "genius" with the world.
Atlas Shrugged has been brought up in modern parallels and there was a movie made recently as well. But IMHO, the fallacy of Atlas Shrugged when comparing it to modern day is in Atlas Shrugged the government sought to control industry. Today, you have only to look inside the pockets of any politician to see that industry controls our government.
Anyway...my dreams aren't normally political commentary...maybe tomorrow night I can dream about just playing Spelunky or something.
P.S. Whaddya think? Would it be worth making?