Yes, but myself I wouldn't hedge with the BRICS. I would hedge with different countries. But I don't mean to tell other people what to do.

For my taste :

- Brazil under Lula is too Jab-friendly,

- Russia under Putin had the Vaxx cards in many parts of the country and had conscription for a while,

- China has a social credit system and is very death jab-friendly (or mandatory covid testing-friendly),

- many in South African political parties seem to want to kill a different demographic (!) and

- India also had a very forced death jab-friendly attitude with the poor in some parts of the country (plus it pretty much woke up one day and demonetized their then-current rupee bills overnight) and unfortunately it has an incredible amount of diseases and parasites (I know many who came back from a simple trip to India and had parasites the doctors couldn't treat for years).

Obviously India has great history and great traditions, etc. I'm also fascinated with many things from China. I also love Indian and Chinese food. Brazil is also a very big country and it has many freedom-lover. So I could understand the appeal.

I'm sure you'll find great people in any of those countries but... I would hedge with other countries, personally.

I haven't been able to find anything better than where I currently am so I haven't moved but, if I were to hedge I think it would be more likely to be with Guatelama / Nicaragua / Mexico / Japan / El Salvador / Romania, or perhaps with an island passport somewhere (although I wouldn't choose Saint Kitts or Saint Vincent, I forget which one, because one of those two had a natural disaster (volcano eruption?) a while back and the gubermint told their people that only the death-jabbed could go on the rescue boats! (So they won't be getting my money).

Just my two sats :-)

I do think it may prove very useful to have a second passport, as a plan B, in case they want to do another lockdowns, vaccinations, mobilization, even higher taxes or alike, or if there is a war in your country (for example, I live in a country that may be the next one invaded by Russia)

I've been thinking what county could that be. The one to have a passport of, as a backup.

BRICS, I mean, as much as we , correctly, criticize dystopian policies of the US or EU, I do think the West is still, by an order of magnitude, better than BRICS in terms of political freedom, freedom of speech, property rights, etc.

As much as I hate high taxes, state propaganda, or f... masks and politicians corruption, still, you are, I think, by far better off, on freedom dimension, in the West. For sure at least comparing to Russia or China.

But yes, maybe good to shop for a second passport. But where, I'm unsure.

One thing I'm sure of, there is no perfect country.

And the better ones make it hard and expensive to immigrate. And the ones that are more open, are typically poor and the level of the rule of law may vary and may deteriorate as well.

I wish I had more answers.... Others thoughts?

What is a good backup option passport?