The title and theme of minesweeper is a reference to landmines, which are explosive devices placed in combat areas and typically concealed with the intention of killing or injuring enemy combatants. Landmines are a serious social and economic problem in many current and former war zones, often injuring civilians even decades after hostilities have ended and requiring large investment to locate and remove which is often beyond the scope of poorer countries. The game minesweeper is an abstract representation of landmine clearance, a dangerous role often carried out by NGOs and charities, but sometimes by military forces, in which people attempt to locate and disarm landmines safely. The player takes on the role of such a person and must use basic mathematical logic to determine the locations of mines without revealing and "detonating" them. This lose state references the risk of accidentally detonating a mine while attempting to clear them, and the real risk of injury or death associated with mine clearance.
Minesweeper is based on some of the earliest computer games ever created, but the version most commonly referenced is Microsoft Minesweeper. Microsoft is a multinational technology corporation and one of the largest technology companies in the world. A corporation is a feature of capitalist economies, and is a legal entity representing an association of people, often with the intention of generating profit. Microsoft has been associated with several controversial business practices, such as anti-competitive behavior and tax avoidance, and has faced criticism over its internal work environment. Leaked NSA documents allege that Microsoft has also allowed the US government to access the hosted data of non-US citizens without consent or a warrant.
Microsoft Minesweeper was created by two Microsoft employees, and included in the first Microsoft Entertainment Pack, which is one of the first instances of games being marketed as "casual" games, in this case aimed at office workers with access to workplace computers. From 1992, Microsoft Minesweeper began to be included with Microsoft Windows as bundled software. Windows Vista included a version made under license by a third party developer of casual games, Oberon Media. Due to controversy around the landmine theme, this version featured an alternative appearance in which the mines were replaced by flowers. This alternate appearance was regionalized, and the game was also renamed to "flower field" in some regions which where landmines were deemed to be a controversial issue.
From Windows 8 onward, minesweeper has not been included in Windows installations, reflecting the growing access to cloud based services such as Microsoft's online storefront.
Although Microsoft Minesweeper is the best known version of minesweeper, the gameplay and mechanics of minesweeper are not intellectual property of Microsoft and numerous clones and alternate versions exist.
TL;DR. Minesweeper was produced in the real world, and its production and distribution has involved many economic processes, business practices and changing features of the world about which a person could quite reasonably have a political opinion. It also references the real world both in its name and theme, to the point that both have actually been changed at times to avoid controversy.