Living the Dream

Reuters reports that students are making politics a fantasy game--instead of just a game:

Politics has become a game for a group of California college students who have launched an online video game, "Fantasy Congress," in the lead-up to next month's U.S. congressional elections.
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[Co-founder] Lee said he hoped the game would inspire people to pay as much attention to politics as they do to sports.
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A recent study found that fantasy football costs employers as much as $1.1 billion a week in lost productivity during the National Football League regular season, when nearly 37 million people spent an average of 50 minutes per week at work managing their fantasy teams.
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[Lee] does hope that the game will inspire more young people to become lawmakers [or sex offenders].

Do people really need to be encouraged to run for office? Does the POTUS really need to receive a salary? My fantasy is that everyone would be in the same social security system as a U.S. Senator...