well @dantheman - you are starting slowly to make more sense. And I agree that Proof Of Uniqueness (POU) for validation of identity is interesting.

The world is apparently full of fake identities from birth-certificates, drivers-license, passports and death-certificates - heck, people even buy their diplomas online instead of attending school.

If you are robbed for your passport when you are abroad, the only way you can get a new one is by contacting your closest consulate (for emergency passports valid for 1 roundtrip) or your closest embassy (to obtain a real passport from the government of your country official)

Just like a lot of people create anonymous accounts in the world of crypto, governments do the same for their agents as you said - so what is stopping someone from producing fake birth-certificates every year, registering them as citizens living abroad and bring the identities back in when there is a customer or an agent needing to request one?

And the world has a real problem with immigrants coming to Europe and USA burning their identities and in some cases their fingerprints - which means nobody knows what reputations they have from where they are from.

They could be hardcore serial killers posing as victims of terrorism and guilty to be sentenced to many lifetimes in jail in the countries they are from.

I agree we should decentralize identity and opt for basic ID in a public database - and it could be SteemID.

Sincerely, and in all friendliness
@fyrstikken & @fyrst-witness