Another strategic industry?

GAME SHOW HOST: Karl Marx, your final question, who won the FA Cup in 1949?

MARX: The workers' control of the means of production? The struggle of the urban proletariat?

GAME SHOW HOST: No. It was in fact, Wolverhampton Wanderers who beat Leicester 3 to 1.

Monty Python's Flying Circus

According to an article on the Forbes web site, the Chinese government has decided to ban foreign companies from investing in domestic on-line gaming operations. I seem to recall learning that Communists have some suitably-Communist term for industries that are vital to economies, although I can't quite recall what this term is right now. I certainly never expected this term to be applied to games like World of Warcraft.