Biometric ID

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Oh... Civilization....

I personally live in Canada. Canada itself is larger than the territory of the US, and even a few times larger than all of Europe (Considering a good part of Russia is in Asia), for that matter. I don't need any passport to move between the Provinces. Hell, I can go to the United States with my Driver's licence, too, personally, so I don't bother with costly passports.

Canada - 9.97 million sq km
US - 9.63 million sq km

Canada population - 35 million
US population - 315 million

And of that 35 million Canadians, 75% of them live with 90 miles of the US border - so you're almost just a suburb of the US anyway.

On the point of biometric ID's - anyone who's recently been in the US military knows about CAC cards. They already have magnetic stripes and integrated circuit chips in them. And if at some point in the US, you applied to join the military or were arrested and fingerprinted, then your prints are ALREADY on file somewhere.

From a day to day perspective, we simply get by with our state issued drivers licenses or state issued photo ID cards. There was supposed to be a Federal REAL ID requirement for them, but we're just contrary enough in this country that enough individual states told the Feds to shove it that it's probably never going to pass.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.