Reminds me of Nomic[1], a thought experiment which appears in an appendix to Peter Suber's excellent book, "The Paradox of Self-Amendment" [2]. Choice quote from the introduction to Nomic:

   If law-making is a game, then it is a game in which changing the rules is a move.

[1] http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10288408/Peter%20...

[2] http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/10243418