According to the conventional narrative of human history, citizenship was a sacred, unbreakable tie that combined ancestry, birthright, and common cultural heritage. Your country chose you, frequently by pure happenstance of where you were born. The high-altitude lounges of Dubai, Singapore, and Zurich, however, are writing a different story in the twenty-first century. Illustration by The Geostrata Citizenship is now a diverse asset class rather than a fate. Small countries

An epochal building block of a nation’s foundation is its sovereignty. Free from external influence, countries have the authority to...