Political Satire Writing Prompts

Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.

You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all.

The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.

You are Kim Jong Un. You want nothing more than to reunite with the South, but your advisors will overthrow you if they find out. You keep trying to troll global powers to the point where they invade, and you can surrender. This has been going on for years now...

You're an Evil Overlord who has ruled over you dominion for ages. Your secret? Social services are well funded, orphanages are places of love, the pediatric wings in hospitals are state of the art. Thanks to this no child has the tragic backstory necessary to become the hero that defeats you.

Abstinence-only education just means that teenagers are going to experiment by themselves and get hurt. The power of dark magic is all too tempting in today's stressful society, vote yes on giving our children comprehensive hex education.

Space law dictates the first to discover any intelligent species in the galaxy would have absolute rights over them. It worked out fine, until Earthlings developed space travel without outside help, and “discovered” the First Civilization.

When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27

Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism." They get a badge. Then all of their wealth is donated to charity and they have to start over at $0.

After chatting with your online Korean friend, who you often game with, he invites you to visit him in his home country, which he always refers to as "Best Korea". You think he's joking around, but when you get a flight confirmation, you learn that your friend is actually Kim Jong-un.

You're a super-villain who took over the world because you thought you'd do a better job of running it and you were right. You've created a peaceful, just, equal and scientifically driven global society everyone likes, except for a cadre of former super-heroes who are now radical terrorists.

Murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim.

Rather than being dispatched by a dispatcher, police officers use a bounty system where officers can pick up missions from a constantly updated bounty board. The missions range from: "noise complaint, $20", to "domestic abuse, $150", to "bank robbery in progress, $5000".

God comes up with a new rule to deter innocent human sacrifices in his name. From now on, there should be TWO human sacrifices; the first will be chosen by the town as usual, the second will be chosen by the first tribute, without any objections.

The hero has been defeated, the Dark Lord reigns. It seems like nobody can stop him, but then he surprises everyone by actually being a good leader, or at least better then the warring kings that used to rule this land. He's even funding science, if only because he wants to conquer the moon.

Day 1: Aliens invade. Day 3: Aliens discover 'Worker's Unions'. Day 7: Aliens tell their Royal Leaders that they won't continue the invasion without proper contracts and wages.

Two kings have been engaged in a bitter war for over a decade, each one performing strategic marvels from his throne. Unknown to both of them. Both of their armies have long since shaken hands and gone home as friends. The entire kingdom is in on it.

You're a U.S. Senator and are running out of things to say in your Filibuster. In a last ditch attempt, you start a D&D campaign.

You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.”

4 more minutes on the run and you would have made it. But now your face in the mud, and a knee in your back the officer reads your rights. "Chosen by lottery, informed within the time limit. You are hearby duly sworn as the President of the United States."

You are a supervillain with healing powers. The only reason your labelled a supervillain because the American healthcare system is intimidated by you

Every year, the richest person in the country is declared the, "Winner of Capitalism". They get a special badge, and then all their money, assets and everything that they own are donated to charity so they have to start back up again at $0.

You just found the cure to cancer and governments around their world are trying to silence you for profit… it turns out the cigarette companies hired people to keep you safe since their best customers would live longer

An alien race destroyed half of one continent, in in response the Humans destroyed half of the alien homeworld. When called to the Galactic Council for trial the humans response was "It's a proportional response!"

"Of course I've gone mad with power. Have you tried going mad without power? It's boring! No one listens to you!"

The king is hailed as a hero by the poor people of the kingdom for his reforms that improve their lives. What they don't know is that the king hates poor people above all else; how they look, how they smell, everything. To him, the reforms are simply a way to have fewer poor people.

Since it didn't sink in at your coronation, let me be clear: I am the KINGDOM'S magical guard, not the King's... and lately your cruelty and stupidity have become dangerous.

In a country were an unbeatable truth serum with a verified 0% false positive rate is routinely used on all political candidates, the revelation that one candidate is completely clean of any misdeeds is considered terrifying by everyone (voters included) instead of reassuring.

"Stand down! Join the side of justice!" The hero exclaimed at the villain's henchmen. "But why? Our boss gives us healthcare, paid vacations, and homes for our familes to live safely."

Suddenly politicians start dying for an unknown reason, seemingly at random. The reason is discovered - something or someone has cursed them to die if they tell a lie