Mishmahig wrote:Acroticus wrote:
You have thousands of miles of shore, as well as docks that lead to major cities I would guess. Unless you need an ID card to walk from a boat to the city (which I would guess you wouldn't, as trade is a big part of Kherkovian society due to your trade deficit), so if you refused to let many traders in, you'd basically be a third world country....
Also, if ID cards are such an integral part of Kherkovian society, then any decent spy agency would be able to falsify one, or at least fake one closely enough that it passes a visual inspection. I doubt every Kherkovian guard will be so diligent as to carefully examine or check every ID card he sees (nor do I think that guards stop every person walking down a street).
For example, in the Dominion, everyone is issued an emergency medical card that, when scanned, lists their name, their medical information, and their next of kin/guardian. It passes as an ID card for most corporations, and similarly for government agencies (albeit with some more stringent practices for higher security areas, of course). There are alternative forms of identification, but the medical card is the most convenient for the majority of the population.
I would easily expect Zgrajan spies or Auran spies to be able to enter the country and obtain or falsify their own medical card--or even one from a recently deceased person. If they were ever asked to provide identification, any policeman would simply take down their bar-coded information for a follow-up investigation (if they were witnesses to a crime) and wouldn't realize the fake identity until it was entered into police databases during the investigation.
Unless the Auran spy was the policeman
