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It's not like there's some master list of "authorities allowed to issue passports". Each state decides on its own which passports it will recognise, and they d
by caf 8y ago
It's not like there's some master list of "authorities allowed to issue passports". Each state decides on its own which passports it will recognise, and they don't all agree.
- starbeast 8y agoAfter hearing about people successfully traveling on Principality of Sealand passports, I did wonder how far you could get round the world possessing documentation from a completely fictional country. >This is not the first time that passports from Sealand have found their way into the news. One was found on the killer of Gianni Versace, Andrew Cunanan, and he was said to have a car with Sealand diplomatic plates. In 1997 forged Sealand passports were used to launder drug money in Slovenia, and there were reports that 4,000 forged passports were sold at £1,000 a head before China's takeover of Hong Kong. People involved in an illegal pyramid-selling scheme in eastern Europe had Sealand papers; one had border stamps from Libya, Iraq and Iran. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/28/features11.g2 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/28/features...
- ForHackernews 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage_passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage_passport There are a variety of companies that issue fake passports in the styles of fictional or historical countries.
- ggm 8y agoI'd be very surprised if it wasn't a core set of recognized nation states, and a set of transition economies from the former USSR making the vast bulk of semi- and not- recognized states. Political process dominates Taiwan, Kashmir and Palestine. Nobody recognizes Pitcairn Islanders or residents of Kurguelen. (British overseas and French outre mer respectively and I was joking they don't pretend to be passport issuing nations)