Sorry, Nigerians out there, but if you want to see one of the biggest sci-fi films America generated this year, you’re going to have to get your passport in order and head for another country–District 9 is officially banned in Nigeria.

File the rest of this under the “unintentionally hilarious because no one really cares what Nigeria thinks” department as Nigeria then began to get a hugely overinflated sense of its own importance and began issuing the following demands.

1. Sony must apologize for portraying Nigerians as “gangsters and cannibals”.

2. Sony must edit its movie to remove all references that sound vaguely like the name of their former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

3. Sony must edit its movie to remove all references to Nigeria.

There’s no word on what prizes Sony would get in exchange for knuckling under, but the country’s “information minister”, who apparently isn’t terribly interested in information about growing crops and feeding citizens and instead is focused entirely on finding insults to the country in modern film, issued a statement which read in part:

“We have directed that they should stop public screening of the film,” Ms. Akunyili said. “We are not happy about it because it portrays Nigeria in bad light.”

Bravo, Ms. Akunyili.