(Crossposted from Story-Games, because I find it amusing to do so).
The Cog Wars is a confusing title. Nobody knows what a Cog is.
The art is goofy and cartoony, as is much of the writing, which makes for much confusion with the very real and very ugly concepts of racial inequality, indentured servitude, the price of revolution, the placebo nature of media, and so on, which the characters are expected to fight. It's like that moment in Watership Down where you go "Awww, lookit the cute liddle bunny... OH MY GOD!"
The game runs largely around a mission-style method, which may not address your theme, if you like that sort of thing. But, if you like mission-based traditional play, you're still screwed - It uses weird 'hippie' mechanics like stakes and conflict resolution. The conflict resolution is a glorified version of paper-rock-scissors, with five symbols, each of which does something different to your opponent if you win with it. You won't get to use any of your dice collection.
Description, and judgements on it, are largely in the hands of the players. You could get around the city on a rope made of noodles if the other players are willing to let you get away with it. There's no money, no equipment lists. You get five virtue numbers, and three traits, two of which come from a list. And that's all the character mechanics that you get, period, so there's probably not nearly enough crunch to satisy some of you.
I wrote it with loads of help from people; if you try, you can probably find one of them to bitch about. TonyLB, Robert Earley-Clarke, Dmitri A, and StephenLS all threw in varying amounts of the text. That's a hippie designer, a White Wolf freelancer, and a couple of other folks you likely only know under screen names. Oh, and a couple of rather gorgeous Biologists who have nothing to do with creating any other RPG are acting as my editors.
You might hate my game. But I love it.
(And, yes, I am laughing like a hyena as I write this. Probably inappropriately, but whatever. This is kind of celebratory "I'm DONE!!!!" post.)