Board games aren’t the sort of entertainment people tend to get up in arms about — but in Italy, certain themes are never child’s play. When the board game La Famiglia: The Great Mafia War hit the Italian market last month, it sparked outrage. 

Launched by a German company, the game comes in packaging illustrated with the requisite “postcard Italy” images of rolling hills, hay bales and cypress trees and features two well-coiffed men on a motorbike escaping a burning villa — with one of the figures carrying a baseball bat. Set during the height of the merciless mafia battles that terrorized Sicily in the 1980s and ’90s, La Famiglia pits players against each other as competing mob families by using “fighters and bombs” in order to “finally dominate Sicily.”