PARANOIA

That bastion of government competence and good sense, the Transportation Security Administration -- the ones who screen you at airports -- has announced a private-sector "Registered Traveler" program. Basically, they'll let you pay big money for a pass to speed through security checkpoints.

But hold on to that checkbook! It turns out, because terrorists might subscribe to this program (will they stop at nothing?), the government is wisely removing program benefits at random:

We know that terrorists may seek to exploit the Registered Traveler program, and the program must be designed to thwart those efforts. Therefore, program benefits will change from time to time in order to make it more difficult for terrorists to anticipate our security activities. Further, TSA will not exempt Registered Traveler participants from random additional screening.

Presumably every PARANOIA player has already discerned how this idea can swerve into Really Stupid Badness. But just in case, here's Hannibal at Ars Technica:

Consumers will want the fastest possible screening for the lowest price. This will give private screeners massive incentives to hire low wage, unskilled employees to man the checkpoints, and to give them the worst benefits possible. (Of course, such incentives are already in place to a large degree under the current TSA regime, but the proposed RT plan will increase them.) The new plan also will explicitly encourage companies to find ways to move travelers through checkpoints as rapidly as possible. Do unskilled, minimum-wage airport screeners who're under pressure from management to move customers through checkpoints as rapidly as possible sound to you like a recipe for thorough and secure airport screening?

[...] Given that a truly market-driven airport screening program would encourage shoddy screening and give terrorists just as many options for gaming the system as it would give travelers options for participating in it, it's hard to believe that the program was actually designed with keeping the skies safe as its primary goal. Rather, the program seems tailor-made for handing out lucrative TSA contracts to well-connected private sector companies.

Inspiration for PARANOIA scenarios is left as an exercise to the Gamemaster.