Haba said:
Alternative reality, where there is no violence or crime. People are well behaved and always try to do the good thing.
The player character is transported from our "reality" into this alternative reality.
And then you get to fuck it up.
Actually that's sort of why I prefer Brave New World to 1984 as far as mindcontrolling-dictatorship settings go. In BNW there actually is utopia. 1984 has some great aspects, including the depressing finish, but the setting itself is dull - there really isn't any moral ambiguity at all, Big Brother = bad, freethinking = good.
In BNW however, they have eliminated crime, eliminated bad reliationships, eliminated stress, no disease, no poverty, and absolutely no unhappiness. What's more, it isn't done by making people into unfeeling zombies - instead EVERYONE is GENUINELY happy, they all have great sex with no emotional fuckups coming from it, they are all genuinely satisfied with their jobs, they all feel like they are the luckiest person in the world and they all love their society and those around them. Except the whole think is done by mind-programming, so they have no ability to be unhappy, no ability to question the system that makes some people artificially smart and others artificially stupid so they are satisfied doing the manual jobs. Perfect happiness vs freedom - now THAT is an interesting 'moral ambiguity' setting.
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The ending of the book typifies it. The 'heros' - one guy who was accidentally manufactured marginally too smart, another accidentally manufactured marginally too stupid, and an escapee from the 'zoo' where they keep old-style humans (us) in an feux-natural habitat for historical preservation - get caught and are brought before the head-dictator. Instead of 1984-style-torture, they find a guy who is actually nice and has good intentions, and who genuinely believes that the greater good is to remove free thought in order to grant happiness. He can't let them stay and fuck things up, but he doesn't want to be cruel, so he offers them life on a tropical island, with all their desires attended to for the rest of their lives. The heroes instead demand to be placed somewhere desolate up in the arctic - their final statement of freedom over happiness.
Obviously you wouldn't want a game to rip off that exact ending. But it shows how rich a setting like that would be for C+C. Do you unbrainwash the working class, only for them to realise that the lives they thought were awesome are actually shitty and exploited? What if some people don't WANT freedom? Do you use violence to free people, bringing war into a completely peaceful society? If a party member or NPC has his family die in some horrible way, do you brainwash him into returning to his old life of perfect happiness?