Could solve all those problems if they just got rid of the minorities.

Call it a Defense Star instead. That's what you do in Tropico, you tell all of the other factions to fuck off by building a Dea-....Defense Star. The UN then starts sending to strongly worded letters, hoping you'll stop threatening the entire world with your Dea-... Defense Star

They didn't want to say Shuriken, that's racists.