The developer behind Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, an action-thriller in which you play a highly-equipped military sleeper agent brought in to quell a civil war on the crumbling streets of Washington DC, has said that it ‘cannot be openly political in its video games’ because it is ‘bad for business.’

Speaking at the Sweden Game Conference, Ubisoft Massive’s COO Alf Condelius said: “In The Division, it's a dystopian future and there's a lot of interpretations that it's something that we see the current society moving towards, but it's not - it's a fantasy.”

The Division 2 is a multiplayer-focussed game that has players dropping into the overrun capital of America, where monuments like the Capitol Building lie in ruins, fighting off ‘Marauders’ with gear found on the battlefield.

"It's a universe and a world that we created for people to explore how to be a good person in a slowly decaying world,” said Condelius, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. “But people like to put politics into that, and we back away from those interpretations as much as we can because we don't want to take a stance in current politics.”