Puppetland

Puppetland: A Storytelling Game with Strings in a Grim World of Make-Believe is a role-playing game written by John Scott Tynes.
The game was first published in Arcane magazine issue 16 in early 1997, then later by Hogshead Publishing together with "Powerkill", a satirical role-playing metagame by the same author, under the title Puppetland/Powerkill.
A free edition, including most of the game text is available on the author's web site.
New Style.
"Puppetland/Powerkill" was part of a series experimental/alternative role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing. Other games in the series included the award-nominated "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Münchhausen", "Pantheon", and "Violence".
Kickstarter and New Edition.
In November 2014, an expanded version of "Puppetland" was successfully funded on Kickstarter, to be published by Arc Dream Publishing.