The machine readable printed parts are covered by an international standard ISO/IEC 7501-1 [1]. So despite your cynicism, all governments literally are on the

The machine readable printed parts are covered by an international standard ISO/IEC 7501-1 [1]. So despite your cynicism, all governments literally are on the same page about passports. What do people think organizations like ISO, ITU, ICAO etc do other than exactly this sort of standardization process of human activities that are common across national boundaries? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport