[anticorporate]

As problematic as national IDs and related things are are, I do someone wish my country would just assign me a universal identity number and let me use that for all government documents.

Names are just too deeply personal to impose someone else's rules on them.

[dgllghr]

I think many people are scared of "being reduced to a number" but I wonder if, psychologically, codes like p7jn8-h would go over better.