10 Video Games Banned Overseas For Ridiculous Reasons

If we asked you to write a list of games that no one - not anyone - not a single, deranged soul on this Earth could find offensive, Football Manager would be right up their with Farming Simulator and that game where you take apart and rebuild car engines. It is, after all, basically a spreadsheet.

Well, leave it to the Chinese government.

Somehow, unintentionally, the international version of Football Manager 2005 - which featured Taiwan and Tibet as independent nations - was released in China. The Chinese Ministry Of Culture outright banned the game immediately for being "harmful to China's sovereignty," in "serious" violation of Chinese Law, and "strongly protested" by the nation's gaming community. Anyone caught distributing the game could be fined up to $3,600 and have their business license permanently revoked.

Developer Sports Interactive soon issued a reply that this version of the game was never meant to be distributed in China, and that China was meant to receive its own version that included Tibet and Taiwan as a part of China.

So here we have two versions of a game differentiated only by a disagreement on which countries are actually countries. Politicians, am I right?