Heinlein had a great quote on this: When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
You can regard the ID's part as any kind of serious tracking beyond your word about what happened, but unfortunately we're a bit off on the space travel...
Counter point: for a large portion of history nobody had IDs because most people were faceless serfs whose lives didn’t matter and still had very little personal autonomy. By Heinlein’s metric, medieval Europe must have been awesome, which is clearly not the case.
You can regard the ID's part as any kind of serious tracking beyond your word about what happened, but unfortunately we're a bit off on the space travel...