> In every other country you show them your passport, you write your signature and you pay a deposit - done. There are nearly 200 countries on this planet, in

> In every other country you show them your passport, you write your signature and you pay a deposit - done. There are nearly 200 countries on this planet, in that context your claim sounds more like quite the generalization, on your part, rather than an actual fact. edit; Wow, never would have thought that stating a simple fact could be controversial on HN. What is going on in these comments? People acting like everybody is American/Canadian, and as if the whole world is all the same, but only China is some weird outlier, smh