It's certainly something Perl can do, and simulations of this sort often lend themselves to object-oriented programming fairly well. But if you don't already know Perl, learning Perl's OOP system can be somewhat daunting. I recommend getting a good book like merlyn's Learning Perl and doing the exercises therein. (And perhaps starting with a somewhat less ambitious project to get your feet wet.)

Once you're comfortable with basic procedural perl, check out the manpages for perlboot and perltoot and perlobj. And also see TheDamian's excellent book Object Oriented Perl.