Will Wright is an avowed libertarian and has been since the very first version of Simcity, the algorithms in the game are designed towards that philosophical conception of the world. Game design allows people to create a world in which they control not only the user's perception of the world, but the public within it as well, and can enforce the rules which their philosophical beliefs dictate.  Computer programming, like every other maths or science major, attracts libertarians who are more comfortable with perceiving the world as a matter of hard and fast rules.