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The sale of citizenship is more commonly known as Golden Passports, or Citizenship-By-Investment. Estate agents sell recently developed apartments that, because of their price, allow the buyer to obtain the passport of that country. To understand how this institutionalised mobility is enacted in, I rehearsed such a purchase. Performing as an investor I accessed projects that would soon (not) house new citizens or their tenants. Within those viewings, model flats presented as homes whilst the agent and purchaser believed to care about the quality of the finish. Reality was suspended for the duration of the negotiation. Citizenship itself acts only as a means of access to a third country otherwise not granted by the original passport. This disconnect from the nation by the roles played emulates the arbitrariness of citizenship when it is tied to material form as capital. New builds become an outlier as citizenship is usually unseen, the emptiness of the nation state manifested in the failed utopia of new concrete. The nations where this played out remain unnamed.