U.S. - Epic Games has issued a lifetime ban on presidential candidate Bernie Sanders after he kept building sprawling gulags and imprisoning all the other players.

Sanders, who went by the username St4linDidN0thingWr0ng, did not technically violate the rules but "went against the spirit of the game," according to an Epic spokesperson.

"Every time a match would start, Sanders would gather up a bunch of bricks and wood and build these intricate gulags," he said. "Well, he wouldn't do the building himself, of course -- he would compel other players to do the actual work. But once the thing was built, he would simply confiscate all the guns from around the island and toss the other players in there -- even the workers who built it for him!"

"It wasn't much fun for anyone other than Sanders," he added.

Unfortunately, Sanders has since thrown the entire Epic Games staff into actual gulags and unbanned himself from the game.