@irene @ricci @steve @dan I have an old passport with a page where one side is a Russian VISA and the other a Chinese VISA, fun to show up in Washington DC with that 
Proper bureacracy was described in the 1976 edition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Tasks_of_Asterix - “The Place that Sends you Mad”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dO9Lm_CXz0 (could not find an english edition 1,2,3, but has english subs
-- original was french/dutch/german