UPF Citizenship?

Okay when people immigrate today (and in the past immigrated) often names are changed...  there are a lot of people with names that have nothing to do with their family history, or what their name meant in another language. These name changes can be pretty arbitrary, and some peoples spellings were changed to something close in English but sometimes not at all &amp; for many of us it is the whim of the paper pusher it seems if your name has anything to do with your ancestor's name (or you lucked out and someone moved pre-Immigration paper pushers)... also in a culture that practically demands a last name if you come from a culture that does not do last names, guess what your getting one! Singingbird or maybe Smith.<div><br /></div><div>Currently there are a surprising number of children enrolled in school with these names: Gnu Lnu &amp; Fnu Lnu which means Given Name Unknown Last Name Unknown or First Name Unknown Last Name Unknown. Probably the weirdest of the paperwork snafus created by how we do stuff in the USA, I am sure the children have real names but for some reason their legal paperwork says that... something to do with VISAs &amp; Immigration status. Sigh. </div><div><br /></div><div>So UPF citizenship? Obviously people born on the various member Government planets of the 4 Core are citizens, but what does that mean? I am inclined to see the UPF less like the USA &amp; maybe a bit more like the EU on passport type stuff. So people traveling with in the UPF could have one or the other I suppose. But what about races immigrating in or from aboriginal races? Has anyone considered how this would be handled? What happens if someone from the UPF has issues in the Rim or vice a versa... just think about all the immigration/diplomatic issues that can and do occur... </div><div><br /></div><div>I am so going to do terrible things to NPC names now... so players can wonder why everyone from planet x of race y have all the same first name Fnu or all the same last name Lnu! <img src="http://www.starfrontiers.us/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/p…; title="Foot in mouth" alt="Foot in mouth" border="0" /> </div><div><br /></div><div>And maybe some folks from outside the Frontier with names that just don't fit, so people can have absurd names depending on the Core 4 paper pusher <img src="http://www.starfrontiers.us/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/p…; title="Wink" alt="Wink" border="0" /> just like real life. Just imagine a Dralasite renaming someone. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am seriously considering a UPF Immigration Center.</div>