Burma (now Myanmar) Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) Eastern Samoa (now American Samoa) Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) New Granada (Presumably meaning the Spanish colony or the Republic of New Granada, 1831–1858; now in Colombia and Panama) New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) South Vietnam (now Vietnam) Spanish Guinea (now Equatorial Guinea) Soviet Union (now divided into fifteen States) Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Purpose and legality According to sellers, the purpose of a true camouflage passport, rather than a novelty fantasy passport, is to provide false identification to be used in an emergency to protect the bearer from unwelcome attention at border crossings or anywhere that they might be asked to produce their documents and could be at risk. The camouflage passport, they say, is therefore intended primarily to deceive a customs, immigration or police officer into believing that the bearer is a person from a small, unimportant, and far away country that is not an enemy, or, in a terrorist situation, that the bearer is not a potentially high-value hostage. Others argue, however, that the true purpose of these documents is to be used in criminal activity, including terrorism and money laundering, and that the majority of camouflage passports are bought for those purposes. After the attacks of 9/11, the United States restricted the sale of camouflage passports, although they are still legal to possess in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and all of the European Union. Laws elsewhere may vary. In 2011, the European Union resolved that a "non-exhaustive list of known fantasy and camouflage passports" should be drawn up that "should not be subject to recognition or non-recognition. They should not entitle their holders to cross the external borders and should not be endorsed with a visa." A list was subsequently published and last updated in November 2020. Sellers The producers of camouflage passports are generally internet based businesses that specialise in producing various types of identify documents that may be in real or false names. Other services often offered include offshore company formation, introductions to offshore banking and financial services providers and similar services all targeted at international mobile individuals and those interested in avoiding tax and government regulation. Despite several companies withdrawing from this market in recent years, others continue to operate, offering passports that purport to include UV tags and holograms for