I'm imagining up a world where, through incredible science, the soviets successfully develop genetic engineering, the west develop psychic powers, and such things. Lots of inspiration from the metal gear solid series. I want to include some cool interesting real life people, like Ted Kaczynski, and make them even more interesting, like him becoming president or something. Then I also need cool locations, like an east german state run gay disco club. Any suggestions?
Fiction needs evil as well.
I was thrown by the phrase cool real life people.
although the unabomber would make a difficult villain to include as he commited ultimately low stakes for society as a whole attacks remotely which doesn't add a lot to work with and his real life murders make him an uncomfortable figure to change too much as he has actual living victims he's not like dracula he hurt real people who's pain is deserving of respect and empathy and if you change very much it would probably be better to just create a fictional villain instead