As a German myself I would like to here some arguments why citizen by the place you happen to be at birth is better?

The whole pocket issue seems to be more complex than just “tight pants look dumb otherwise”, saw a Video about it the other day which was somewhat entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_elEw-Oog (Channel: AnswerInProgress , Canadians)

This is bad for any card secondary market, think magic the gathering or pokemon. Usually you send or receive singles or maybe 5 cards at most as a letter, now this needs to be a package i guess.

I would also echo the fears of a throughly digitalized society

Schlock mercenary is the comics name