You've likely heard of Fantasy Sports.  Games where you pick out a roster of players from a given sport, and your "team" wins or loses on the average performance of all of your players in the past week.  Fantasy Football or Baseball leagues are pretty popular office games, and they give people an incentive to more closely watch the sports page of the paper on a near daily basis as they track the stats of all of their players, trying to figure out how they did in their league compared to their friends.

Now, what would you say to Fantasy Congress?  Well, students in California have drafted a new set of fantasy game rules where instead of drafting ball players, you draft members of congress and compete against other player's teams of lawmakers. Lawmakers are ranked based on the progress of their proposed legislation, gaining points as it gets closer to being passed into law This is the brain child of Andrew Lee, a senior at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. 

The hope is to, like in fantasy sports, encourage people to more closely watch and be aware of what is going on in the halls of congress.

An interesting way to get into the upcoming US midterm elections.

Want to play?  Head on over to the Fantasy Congress website.