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?

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I think you summarized the situation very well. It's very hard to know which countries are going in the right direction.

So many criteria to consider :

- general civil rights and freedoms

- no forced jabs or medical tests

- no conscription

- no war

- homeschooling rights

- protection of parental rights

- low level of criminal violence (the State, gangs, mafia, cartels, thefts, etc)

- Bitcoin acceptance or at least non-criminalization

- no forced revealing of passwords

- low level of endemic diseases and parasites

- low level of pollution

- low level of natural disasters

Still looking...

Just for fun, I tried to ask an AI (Llama 2, 70b) what it thought were good countries for a second passport. Countries that protected their citizens' and residents' freedoms and civil rights during the covid plan-demic.

Unfortunately, the answers were ridiculous. Did you know that Canada had a "relatively open approach" during the plan-demic??? It was good to learn that because the forced quarantines, masking, jabs and vaccine passports certainly could have fooled me!! hahaha