Have a look at Terrarium -- it's a game where you build your own autonomous critters in a . NET language, and they're teleported to other networked computers along with the assemblies that they're described in. The goal is to have your critter take over the entire ecosystem, either by killing everything else or by strategically managing food resources.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.