Quite a few countries in Europe have the issuing authority scheme (Serbia, for one -- but there's probably a list of countries which do this somewhere). While y

Quite a few countries in Europe have the issuing authority scheme (Serbia, for one -- but there's probably a list of countries which do this somewhere). While you could argue it is sometimes useful to know if a car is from out of town, it just helps form stereotypes (drivers from X are awful, etc).