Compare this with, say, Estonia where practically everything can be handled through the keys in the ID card.
It's kind of like the feeling I get looking at somebody with a very nice car or house: "Oh, it would be neat to have such a thing but there's no way I'd ever splurge and get that." It's difficult for me to conceive of some things other countries have as just being "normal".
second, many systems of law treat individuals quite differently.. many systems that are not repeated in detail, on YNews, do not give much choice to an individual by design
It could be better in so many ways, though, too. It would be nice if younger people (say, sub-70) would (and could be permitted to) take up the mantles of leadership.
I'd really like to read a speculative fiction/scifi where every generation operates under its own system of laws, and you can opt in to a neighboring generation's laws instead once every N years or something.
> Deutsche Post offers a secure identity check service – to millions of users every year.
> On behalf of your contracting party
> To ensure that only identified persons have access to sensitive services
> To sensitive services including those from the financial services sector (such as opening an online bank account), telecommunications (activating a prepaid SIM card), health care (access to health information) or the mobility industry (including car sharing).
https://www.deutschepost.de/en/p/postident.html