Seriously, what were the odds that Kim Jong-il wasn't going to be on this list? If Gaddafi was the low-hanging fruit on the wackaloon tree, then Kim was the knothole some mentally handicapped kid stashed his tastiest paste snacks in. He smeared the Psychotic Despot Handbook across the walls in his own poop. The only reason he didn't commit every single insanity possible is because Time refused his command to stop while he caught up on that list. Witness Exhibit A...
Gold farming is an interesting concept, and by interesting I mean heart-breakingly sad. Basically, players in MMORPGs kill monsters or do other tasks for hours on end to earn in-game gold, then they sell that in-game currency to other players for real-world currency. It's the sort of gaming that Mitt Romney would probably call fun and the rest of us would probably call only slightly preferable to a prison sentence...except in China, where the practice is huge prison gangs have forced other prisoners to work in their gaming farms because it is so lucrative.
Apparently Kim realized that this was the absolute best way to raise money for that nuclear fuckpunch he's been asking Santa for since he was old enough to threaten other children to confess his crimes and avoid the Naughty List. He had hackers set up accounts in games like Lineage and Dungeon Fighter, and Forbes reported that the scheme had netted at least $6 million thus far. Christ, the little nutjob couldn't even game in a normal way.
Jordan's reigning monarch has been a fine example of evolving Middle Eastern government. Abdullah has begun the process of moving Jordan towards democracy, done much to boost his land's economy, maintains a wonderful reputation with the United States and works tirelessly towards peace in the Middle East. All in all, if you had to be born during a dictatorship, pray you're born in Jordan.
He is also a full-on, out-of-the-closet gamer who absolutely loves gaming in all its forms. His opponents even mock him as King PlayStation for his apparent love of gaming. Want a fun example? Hussam Sohaib of Wizard Productions works both as an original game designer and as someone responsible for localizing existing games for the Arabic world. Sohaib was the first person to develop a 3D MMO in Arabic, and King Abdullah was one of the beta testers.
Even better, his King Abdullah Fund for Development helped launch the Jordan Gaming Lab, designed to build a bigger and better game industry in the country. Now, I love democracy, but if you told me I could trade a few basic human rights to finally get Portal 3 and Half-Life 3 because Emperor Obama didn't feel like waiting on Gabe Newell's ass any longer, I might seriously consider it.
