Your government can kind of just take away your passport, trap you inside, and make it hard to get a passport elsewhere. By controlling your access to your own identity documentation.
It happens to ...
This essentially happened to all Australians during the covid-zero lockdown strategy
Aussie citizens had to ask permission to leave their own country
If they didn’t have a 2nd passport, and the government didn’t deem their reason to travel permissible, then they couldn’t depart on international ships or planes
Crazy in hindsight
One of the reasons I learnt about the importance of flag theory and multiple passports
Aussie citizens had to ask permission to leave their own country
If they didn’t have a 2nd passport, and the government didn’t deem their reason to travel permissible, then they couldn’t depart on international ships or planes
Crazy in hindsight
One of the reasons I learnt about the importance of flag theory and multiple passports