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Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by digbybk on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:15PM (#28870224)
It exists only when people believe it exists. If no one believed in your citizenship, your passport would just be a little notebook with no value. When going from a world without citizenship to a world with it, nothing needs to change outside of the human brain. In that sense, it’s a fiction.
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Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by jkepler on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:09AM (#28874833)
No. A passport says what country must take you when other places decide to deport you or refuse you entry.
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Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by digbybk on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:43AM (#28876705)
You may be missing my point. If no one believes in the country’s existence, including the people who live in the land that the country is purported to encompass, then it doesn’t exist. Nations aren’t tangible physical objects. They exist in the collective human imagination. Yes. Your passport is just a notebook if no one believes in the country it is supposed to be for.
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Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by curryst on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:02AM (#28886101)
Sealand would be of note here. This is basically that exact scenario. Dude buys an old oil platform, calls it a country and issues a bunch of passports. Debates abound over whether they should be accepted or not.
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