10 Video Games Banned Overseas For Ridiculous Reasons

I know, I know - you'd think Cuba, right? As it turns out, the authoritarian island nation has, to our knowledge, never banned a video game - not even Call of Duty: Black Ops, which features a mission to assassinate Fidel Castro. If they consider that fair game, then a city-building sim that casts you as a cartoon Castro lookalike seems pretty tame.

Thailand had a different interpretation, however, banning the game outright as a threat to "peace and order" within the country.

Tropico 5 casts the player as a more revolutionary version of 'El Presidente,' fighting to topple the regime of a dictator and install his/her own government, offering a spectrum of choices that range from iron-fisted military rule to democracy.

And it just so happened that leadership of Thailand had recently been seized by a military coup. One day before the release of the game, in fact.

So, from a certain perspective, one can see how Thailand's new regime might be a little wary of people getting wild ideas like "democracy" from a video game.