Its always brightest before the night

It truely does seem to be brightest before the night, the years before the great depresion, recent recessions, the height of rome before the dark ages that followed. In many ways these are bubbles when things grow beyond the ability to be susstained, held up by something false, and the better things get based on a falsehood the worse they are after.

This is what the rpg quest Its Always Brightest Before the Night is about. A group of evil dezines are making things so much better artifically by improving food production with altered weather, better mine finds, and mind control to make people more peaceful. As people build they grow lazy and so human advancement decreases for hundreds of year then when the kingdom collapses from not only a lack of support but from attacks as well the world will be thrust into dark ages just as it was after Rome fell.
Worse still people will trust the promptings of the psychic and evil beings running everything.
Yet this is a few hundred years in the future to stop the villions the PC's will need to destroy something good now.