Marx once said "Religion is the opiate of the people." Since Marx has been discredited, what better way than to use his manifesto as a parlor game.
I Say ancient Egypt. The King became a god in the Afterlife, and the Afterlife was just doing what you did in life for all eternity.
So THAT's why I caught my parish priest getting high behind the altar one time when I was an altar boy!
Rameses II (?) actually became a god BEFORE the afterlife. As far as I know, he is the only one to successfullly (as in his successors believed it) pull this off!