overregulated dystopia theme
There is a world that is severely dysfunctional because its society is overburdened by onerous and ill-considered regulations that hinder people from effectively producing the goods and services they require to be happy.
Examples
In the short film "Libra" (1978), life on an overregulated Earth seems bleak as the international planning commission imposes variously silly and corrupt regulations that stifle productivity. The whole planet suffers from rolling black-outs as it can no longer even produce the electricity it needs to light up its board rooms.
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| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Libra (1978) | choice | The Earth government was not totalitarian and probably not even autocratic, yet somehow there was a perpetual "international planning commission" that could impose onerous, self-serving, and corrupt regulations on the rest of society to such an extent that people had to live with rolling blackouts. |