Could the trailer be any more explicit? I'm not sure I understood the message. Is mandatory happiness bad? Is there a possibility that an AI can go totalitarian and insane? I am really not sure. I hope this game can spoonfeed me some platitudes.
The trailer wasn't explicit enough. Paranoia takes the dystopian Big Brother concept, cranks it up to the point of ridiculousness und throws the player into a madhouse ruled by an insane computer that is utterly convinced that there are Commie Mutant Traitors who want to bring down society. Of course, due to generations of cloning and radiation, everyone is a mutant. Also, everyone is a member of one of various secret societies that want to bring down Friend Computer, i.e. everyone is a traitor. The secret societies fight each other as much as they fight Friend Computer.
The players are so-called Troubleshooters tasked with rooting out said Commie Mutant Traitors. A P&P RPG session usually consists of the group of troubleshooters getting some sort of suicide mission and a bunch of equipment that is either dangerous to handle and/or ill-suited for the task or both. Players are also supposed to advance the cause of their respective secret societies, often with additonal tasks that are incompatible with the mission goals. The players are constantly trying to backstab and screw each other over while trying to fulfill their secret society's goals as well as stay alive, i.e. not give any reason to be terminated by Friend Computer, and get promoted to a higher security level.
The P&P game is competitive rather than collabortative since it pits the players against each other. It needs players who are mainly interested in roleplaying, chaos and comedy and who are willing to more or less forget about character developement and fulfilling the mission. Not sure how you can turn something like this into a CRPG.
