Learn with Verandia how a democracy deploys verifiable identity
Follow the Republic of Verandia through its full journey: an eIDAS-2-compatible Citizen ID for every citizen, a verifiable Business ID for every company, legal representation as proof, and passwordless sign-in at the Tax Buro and the bank. Then do every step yourself, with a real wallet.
Republic of Verandia
A country, going verifiable
The Republic
Verandia is a small democracy that runs on trust: a Civil Registry that knows every citizen, a Business Registry that knows every company, and a Tax Buro everyone deals with once a year. The institutions work. Their digital front doors do not.
The institutions
Births, identities, ID cards - the source of truth about people.
Company registrations, directors, legal representation - the source of truth about businesses.
Personal and company taxes - the portal every citizen and company signs in to.
All three institutions are online. The tax portal uses passwords. The company register sells PDF extracts. The civil registry issues plastic cards and stamps paper. Every private service in the Republic - banks first - rebuilds identity checks on top, from scratch, every time.
The problems, and what they cost the Republic
Online
Fake “tax refund” portals phish citizens every filing season. The real portal and the scam look identical - both are just websites.
Every government portal has its own login. Resets flood the help desks, credentials get shared, and a phished password IS an identity.
Companies prove their existence with register extracts - documents any teenager can forge. Every bank and notary re-checks everything, every time.
The Republic takes the blame for every scam that runs in its name - and pays for every identity check its documents cannot survive.
At the counter and at the bank
Legal representation is proven with notarized paper and faxes. It goes stale the day a director leaves - and nobody finds out.
Citizens line up at counters to obtain certificates about facts sitting in the registries: identity, residence, company roles.
Banks re-run KYC on the same companies over and over, notaries certify the same facts, and citizens queue for proofs the Republic already holds.
Online, the Republic's word looks exactly like the scammers' word. Nothing can be proven.
The word of the Prime Minister
“Our registries are the source of truth for five million people - and online, we cannot prove a single fact they hold. Citizens are phished in our name, companies are impersonated with our own documents, and every bank rebuilds identity from scratch. That has to change.”