That' like the opposite of John Lockes' concept of keeping politicians in conflict with one another to prevent them from forming coherent strategies of rebelling against the people and turning the organization dedicated to the preservation of the state of nature and representation of the interests of the public into a self-interested ruling body. You were basically in a federally-enforced civil war to prevent the people rebelling and working in their own self interest.
I suppose I remember enough of last nights' bullshit to post it.
Dream started off playing dwarf fortress adventure mode, except instead of being the party leader I was one of a dozen or so party meatshields. Strange mixture of navigating in ASCII and first person melee fights as one would see in Mount & Blade. I had an iron spear, but we were fighting in a sewer system/keep's catacombs so the close quarters made me largely useless. After clearing a decent sized room of bandits, we stepped out onto the open field, and continued through a narrow trench. We were joined by the town militia, fighting an invasion of giant four-legged harvestman-like monsters. Enormous 200 foot diameter ones were bursting up from the ground in the distance, thankfully ignoring the puny mortals fighting in the trench against the meager grizzly-bear sized ones, who were tearing us to shreds. I managed to kill maybe one or two in the rear before I realized the rest of the party and allies were all dead. I was overwhelmed and eaten alive.
But I savescummed and tried again. Again, the party was eventually overwhelmed and killed. One more try, and this time we were fighting with modern firearms. The bugs kept coming, could absorb hundreds of rounds, and were supported by a tall, lanky variety wielding plasma rifles that were setting us on fire. Again, it was a complete route.
So next up I was a spy infiltrating the bugs' headquarters, where I learned that they were artificial, human-made. Literally. In order to grow them, captured women would be impregnated with their spawn and kept bound to a bench for a week until they burst out from their gut like chestbursters. And then you'd be sewn back together and go through another pregnancy, and another... Of course these were all prisoners of war/civilian prisoners kept in that one facility. The rest of the compound was divided into specific buildings. Administrative, storage, laboratories, etc... I pickpocketed a keycard from a woman who was trying to use a terminal and came to learn that each keycard gives you access to only one building and the mess hall. So I had to set about collecting key cards to get into other structures, while doing the job I was assigned, which was to haul shit around. Oh, and the keycard I jacked was useless to me because it was associated with a woman. Couldn't even collect rations with hers because it was associated with her face and other information.