The Province of Friesland in the Netherlands issues "passports" to children in which they can collect stamps of various tourist attractions. Someone pasted his picture in that "passport" and used it to travel to many countries accross Africa....
On the other hand, when Uruguayan friends of mine visited the Soviet Union in the mid 1980's they were stopped at immigration because the officers had never heard about the Republica Oriental de Uruguay. Someone had to get an atlas and they were asked to point out where Uruguay is....