User blog comment:Jparks95/Dante's Inferno Play/@comment-24101790-20140710225207

In all honesty, I think you should strike a lot of the people Dante places in hell because when he penned "The Divine Comedy", he was spiteful about being exiled so he shoved a lot of his political/religious opponents into Hell as revenge/a smear campaign. (He went so far as to even place one of his opponents neck-high in excrement...) A more modern approach would be interesting, usurers would probably be Goldman Sachs, but I'm hard pressed for other ideas...

I would also recommend checking out Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "Inferno" which is a similar concept but focused more on Science-Fiction writers. It might be helpful for a more modern take on Dante's Inferno.