Pushing South East Asia ever closer to losing their minds and unleashing nuclear hellfire on us all, Korea’s Game Rating Board has appointed Starcraft II, according to The Korea Times, an 18-and-Over age restriction, due to violence, foul language, and drug use (also known collectively as “American Middle School”).

Originally, the Korean government marked the game as a 15-and-up sale based on the Beta release, so Blizzard Korea submitted a “release candidate”, a version more in-line with the final release version, in an attempt to open the game up to a broader market, a ploy which apparently blew up in their face like a faulty sixty-year old surplus Soviet ICBM.

Since Starcraft is looked at in Korea the same way Americans look at…well…internet porn is the only thing quite so wide-spread that comes to mind…this comes as a huge blow to both Korean gamers and Blizzard Korea, who has thirty days to appeal the decision, and thus side-step the apocalypse for us all. Blizzard’s only other option would be to edit out the offensive content to get down to the targeted 12-and-up demographic, which could delay the game by as much as a year.

No one wants that.

Some speculate that the rating may have less to do with the actual content as much as it does the Korean gaming populace’s proclivity for gaming addiction and obsession, which, in all fairness, when the smartest and brightest minds of your population are busy Zerg Rushing when they should be building the infrastructure that will help your country come out on top after culling the Earth with the cleansing purity of fire, yeah, I can see their point.