Makes me think of Gene Wolfe's "How I Lost the Second World War", which revolves around a boardgame simulating a world war, with the players rolling dice at the beginning to determine which countries are on which sides.

(The players in the story roll up a set of alliances that's coincidentally the same as the actual alliances of World War II, snark about how improbable some of them are, and then head off to look at an International Trade Fair where the latest model Volkswagen is being spruiked by some insignificant little Austrian chap with a funny moustache.)